Inventing A-M-E-R-I-C-A
Subtitle: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory, Vol 2)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: February 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780806125398
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Historiography; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; North American; History - General History; History: World; Europe; The Americas
First sentence: Jan van der Straet (1523-1605), better known as Johannes Stradanus, is well known among Americanists for the engraving representing Amerigo Vespucci and "America" (fig. 1, pt. 1), an engraving that is in itself a variation of an original drawing (fig. 1, pt. 2).