Making Contact
Maps, Identity, and Travel
(University of Alberta Press, 2003)
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When civilizations first encounter each other a cascade of change is triggered that both challenges and reinforces the identities of all parties. Making Contact revisits key encounters between cultures in the medieval and early modern world-Europe and Africa, the multiple ethnicities of greater Poland, Christians and Jews, Jesuits and Japanese, Elizabethans vs. aboriginals and vagrants, English and Algonquians, Pierre Radisson and the Iroquois, and the Spaniards in America.
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Authors
Lesley B. Cormack is Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). Before this, she was a Dean at the University of Alberta and at Simon Fraser University. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1988 and taught at the University of Alberta in the Department of History and Classics for 17 years. She is a historian of early modern science, specializing in geography and mathematics in 16th-century England, and the author of Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620 and co-editor with Andrew Ede of A History of Science in Society: A Reader.
Glenn Burger teaches in the Departments of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Jonathan Hart and Natalia Pylypiuk teach at universities across North America and are members of the Medieval and Early Modern Institute.
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Paper ISBN: 9780888643773
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