America first
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 7 January 1993
European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism
by Anthony Pagden.
Yale, 212 pp., £18.95, January 1993,0 300 05285 5 Show More
by Anthony Pagden.
Yale, 212 pp., £18.95, January 1993,
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
by Anthony Grafton, April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi.
Harvard, 282 pp., £23.95, October 1992,0 674 61875 0 Show More
by Anthony Grafton, April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi.
Harvard, 282 pp., £23.95, October 1992,
The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus
by Valerie Flint.
Princeton, 233 pp., £16, August 1992,0 691 05681 1 Show More
by Valerie Flint.
Princeton, 233 pp., £16, August 1992,
Land without Evil: Utopian Journeys across the South American Watershed
by Richard Gott.
Verso, 299 pp., £18.95, January 1993,0 86091 398 8 Show More
by Richard Gott.
Verso, 299 pp., £18.95, January 1993,
“... concentrating on the slow adaptation of book-learning to the novelties disclosed by experience. In Valerie Flint’s The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus, the earliest of Pagden’s examples is minutely examined, not primarily to show the impact of the New World on Columbus, but rather to set the essential framework – to call up the ... ”