Return of Hans Staden - A Go-Between in the Atlantic World

Informationen zum Autor Eve M. Duffy is the director of the Program in the Humanities and Human Values at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Alida C. Metcalf is the Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History at Rice University. A codeveloper of imagineRio , the digital atlas of Rio de Janeiro, she is the author of Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580–1822 and Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500–1600 . Klappentext An artful and accessible interpretation, The Return of Hans Staden takes a text best known for its sensational tale of cannibalism and shows how it can be reinterpreted as a window into the precariousness of lives on both sides of early modern encounters, when such issues as truth and lying, violence, religious belief, and cultural difference were key to the formation of the Atlantic world. Zusammenfassung Hans Staden's sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This title presents a retelling of the German sailor's eyewitness account! showing both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world.

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• Authors: Eve Duffy, Eve M Duffy, Eve M. Duffy, Eve M. (University of North Carolina At Cha Duffy, Eve M. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Duffy, Eve M. Metcalf Duffy, Eve M./ Metcalf Duffy, Duffy Eve M., Alida C Metcalf, Alida C. Metcalf, Alida C. (Harris masterson Jr Professor of History Metcalf
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2012
• EAN: 9781421403458
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0345-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Biography: historical, political & military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Geographical discovery & exploration, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Geographical discovery and exploration, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Biography: adventurers and explorers