Title: The German discovery of the world
First published: 2008
Description: "Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable "other" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. The German Discovery of the World presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, and scientific developments."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Public opinion, Intellectual life, Discovery and exploration, Public opinion, germany, Germany, intellectual life, America, discovery and exploration
Places: Germany, America
LC classification: DD65 .J64 2008