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1 online resource (vii, 464 pages) |
Series |
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series |
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UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
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Contents |
Part I. Intercultural transfers. A peculiar idea of empire : missions and missionaries of the society of Jesus in early modern history / Girolamo Imbruglia -- The politics of writings, translating, and publishing. New world histories in Post-expulsion Italy: Filippo Salvatore Gilgi's 1784 Saggio di storia Americana / Clorinda Donato -- Imagining the kingdom of Quito: reading history and national identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del reino de quito / Eileen Willingham -- For love of Patria : locating self and nation in Clavigero's rendition of the conquest of México / Beatriz de Alba-koch -- Between ethnology and romantic discourse : Martin Dobrizhoffer's History of the abipones in a (post)modern perspective / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink -- From sacred rhetoric to the republic of letters : Jesuit sermons in seventeenth-century new Spain / Perla Chinchilla Pawling -- The role of culture and art in France's colonial strategy of the seventeenth century / Sara E. Melzer -- Part II. Intellectual disputes. José BasÍlio da Gama's epic poem O Uraguay (1769) : an intellectual dispute about the Jesuit state of Paraguay / Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier -- Changing perspectives : the other, the self, the in-between of the Jesuit experience in the eighteenth century / Ute Fendler -- East from Eden : domesticating exile in Jesuit accounts of their 1767 expulsion from Spanish America / Karen Stolley -- "Ils estoient si subjects á leur bouche" : la Relation de 1616 face á la topique antijésuite / Isabelle Lachance -- Les Relations des jésuites et la construction de l'observateur européen face au monde indigéne / Klaus-Dieter Ertler -- Une rhétorique du silence : l'œuvre jésuite dans la Description de la louisiane du récollet Louis Hennepin / Catherine Broué -- Part III. Textualities. L'héritage de José de Acosta / Pierre Berthiaume -- La Nouvelle-France dans l'imaginaire jésuite: terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste/ Marie-Christine Pioffet -- The legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Enlightened / Margaret R. Ewalt -- Pierre Pelleprat's accounts of the Jesuit missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1655) / Réal Ouellet and Marc André Bernier -- Dans le sillage du pére Joseph-François Lafitau : les Avantures de Claude Le Beau / Andréanne Vallée -- Postface : De l'usage de la comparaison dans les écrits des Jésuites sur les Amériques / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink |
Summary |
Linking Jesuit texts, the rhetorical tradition, and the newly emerging anthropology of the Enlightenment, this collection traverses the vast expanses of Old and New World France and Spain in fascinating new ways |
Notes |
Papers based on proceedings of two seminars held at the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies of the William Andrews Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Papers in English and French |
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Print version record |
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Jesuits -- America -- History -- 17th century -- Sources
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Jesuits -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
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Jesuits fast |
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Jesuiten gnd |
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Jesuiten. gnd (DE-601)101557310 |
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Anthropology -- America -- History -- 17th century
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Anthropology -- America -- History -- 18th century
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Enlightenment.
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Ethnology -- America -- History -- 17th century
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Ethnology -- America -- History -- 18th century
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Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Ethnology
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Anthropology
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Enlightenment
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French colonies
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Spanish colonies
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Kulturelle Identität
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Kolonie.
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Ethnologie.
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Amerikabild.
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Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
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Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century
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France -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
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France -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century
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America
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Lateinamerika
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Frankreich.
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Spanien.
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Amerika.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Donato, Clorinda, author, editor
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Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen, author, editor
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Bernier, Marc André, 1964- author, editor.
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ISBN |
9781442663480 |
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1442663480 |
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