{"product_id":"new-world-encounters-volume-6-paperback","title":"New World Encounters: Volume 6 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was \"the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it.\" Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and American peoples. This collection of essays, encompassing history, literary criticism, art history, and anthropology, offers a fresh and innovative approach to the momentous encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefreshing and gratifying. . . . The epics of the Pueblos' resistance, the Aztec poetry before and after the conquest, and the ritual of \u003ci\u003etoqui oncoy\u003c\/i\u003e show the complexity of the means for survival developed throughout the Americas, from New Mexico to the Andes.--Jaime Concha, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Many of these essays form the cutting edge of scholarship on the expansion of Europe and its cultural consequences. Visual evidence, much of it unfamiliar, is deftly integrated into the textual analysis. . . . This work is so solid, so elegantly presented, and at the same time so innovative that the book should attract considerable attention and remain in use for a long time.\"--Anthony Grafton, author of \u003ci\u003eDefenders of the Text\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/b\u003e is The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Two of his publications, \u003ci\u003eShakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting the English Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e (of which he is the editor) are available in paperback from California. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eMarvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World\u003c\/i\u003e (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9.24 x 7.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133480571015,"sku":"9780520080218","price":70.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c2ea8a18e64b18b5106b4a09bba2d990.webp?v=1732634662","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/new-world-encounters-volume-6-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}