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Mapping the Renaissance World: The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery (New Historicism)
Mapping the Renaissance World The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery - New Historicism
Author: Frank Lestringant
At the turn of the sixteenth century, princes and navigators presided over a geographical revolution that fundamentally altered the way people viewed the world. Focusing on the great traveller and map maker, Andr Thevet, Lestringant examines the audacity of the cosmographer, who rivaled God in the creation of new worlds. Accused of blasphemy...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520088719
ISBN-10: 0520088719
Publication Date: 11/8/1994
Pages: 197
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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