European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism (Revised)

by Anthony Pagden

Book Overview

For more than three centuries after Columbus' voyages to America, Europeans pondered how the Old World's encounters with the New World affected European sensibilities and intellectual horizons. In this book Anthony Pagden examines some of the varied ways in which Europeans interpreted these encounters with America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300059507
• ISBN13: 9780300059502
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"