Decentring the Renaissance
Subtitle: Canada and Europe in multidisciplinary perspective, 1500-1700
By: edited by Germaine Warkentin, Carolyn Podruchny.
Contributors: Warkentin, Germaine.; Podruchny, Carolyn.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Canada -- Congresses.; Renaissance -- Congresses.; Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- Congresses.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Congresses.; Canada -- Civilization -- European influences -- Congresses.; Europe -- Civilization -- Canadian influences -- Congresses.; Canada -- Civilization -- 17th century -- Congresses.; Canada -- Civilization -- To 1763 -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-354) and index.
Based on papers presented at a conference held at Victoria College, University of Toronto, in March 1996.
Table of contents: title: Polarities, hybridities: what strategies for decentring? -- Natalie Zemon Davis; title: Inclusive and exclusive perceptions of difference: native and Euro-based concepts of time, history, and change -- Deborah Doxtator; title: Plunder or harmony?: On merging European and native views of early contact -- Toby Morantz; title: Memoria as the place of fabrication of the New World -- Gilles Thérien; title: The sixteenth-century French vision of empire: the other side of self-determination -- Olive Patricia Dickason; title: The mentality of the men behind sixteenth-century Spanish voyages to Terranova -- Selma  Huxley Barkham; title: Relocating Terra Firma: William Vaughn's Newfoundland -- Anne Lake Prescott; title: Images of English origins in Newfoundland and Roanoke -- Mary C. Fuller; title: From the good savage to the degenerate Indian: the Amerindian in the accounts of travel to America -- Réal Ouellet with Mylene Tremblay; title: Few, uncooperative, and ill informed?: The Roman Catholic clergy in French and British North America, 1610-1658 -- Luca Codignola; title: Canada in seventeenth-century Jesuit thought: backwater or opportunity? -- Peter A. Goddard; title: 'A new Loreto in New France': Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot, SJ, and the Holy House of Loreto -- André Sanfac̦on; title: The delights of nature in this New World: a seventeenth-century Canadian view of the environment -- Lynn Berry; title: The beginning of French exploration out of the St. Lawrence Valley: motives, methods, and changing attitudes towards native people -- Conrad E. Heidenreich; title: The earliest European encounters with Iroquoian languages -- Wallace Chafe; title: Decentring icons of history: exploring the archaeology of the Frobisher voyages and early European-Inuit contact -- Réginald Auger ... [et al.]; title: Sir William Phips and the decentring of empire in Northeastern North America, 1690-1694 -- Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid; title: Amerindians and the horizon of modernity -- Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren.