Innocence Abroad
Subtitle: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 15701670
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780521024556
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Western Europe - Benelux; History: American; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Netherlands; European - General; History - Renaissance; Art-History - Renaissance; Dutch literature--1500-1800--History and crit; Dutch literature--1500-1800--History and criticism; History / Europe / General; History-Western Europe - Benelux; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; United States - General
First sentence: To begin at a beginning - a speculative and retrospective, yet singular and imaginative beginning all the same, articulated in both word and powerful image: "There is . . . a landscape, essentially a West Indies landscape, with many naked people, a jagged cliff, and a strange construction of houses and huts."