Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic

Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, the Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute, and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. He is author of numerous books, including Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson--A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic and Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America.

List of contents

Preface

Chapter 1. The Boundaries of Nature

Chapter 2. A New Ecology

Chapter 3. The Landscape of History

Postscript. The Theater of Insects

Note on Sources

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Peter C. Mancall

Summary

Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic reveals how Europeans and Native Americans devised ways to understand the environment. Drawing on paintings, oral history, early printed books, and other cultural artifacts, Peter C. Mancall argues that human understanding of nature played a central role in the emergence of the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Peter C Mancall, Peter C. Mancall
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780812249668
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4966-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: The Early Modern Americas; The Early Modern Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous