A Go-between in the Atlantic World
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Köp båda 2 för 619 krThis work has a broad appeal and should be of immediate interest to a wide variety of scholars and students. One of its best features is that it is readable while also very scholarly... This enjoyable text could be used very successfully with graduate students or undergraduates in an upper-division class. -- Timothy J. Coates The Americas The Return of Hans Staden is a useful book for students, a good way to acquire a first acquaintance with the worlds of a sixteenth-century Landsknecht and German conquistador on both side of the Atlantic. -- Bernd J.W. Ludke German History Elegant... intriguing. -- Mary Lindemann The Coordinating Council for Women in History Scholars of early images of the Americas and of cultural encounters, captivity, and oceanic expansion will find the material engaging. -- Surekha Davies William and Mary Quarterly
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 and the author of Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Spelling and Citation Introduction 1. Staden Goes to Sea 2. The Lying Captive 3. The Traveler Returns 4. Staden's Images Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index