Umfang:
XXXI, 364 S.
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Ill.
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23 cm
ISBN:
1919895264
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9781919895260
Inhalt:
"Ships, soldiers, missionaries and settlers drove the process of European expansion from the 16th to the 19th centuries. In doing so, they set in motion the circulation of images, manuscripts and books between different continents. ... This book explores the extent to which the types of written information that resulted during colonial expansion shaped the numerous and complex processes of cultural exchange from the 16th century onwards."--Back cover
Anmerkung:
Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: The written word and the world
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Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: the Libyco-Berber example
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From pictures to letters: the early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo's alphabetisation process during the 16th century
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Edmond R. Smith's writing lesson: archive and representation in 19th century Araucanía
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Missionary knowledge in context: geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuries
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From travelling to history: an outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th century
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Towards an archaeology of globalisation: readings and writings of Tommaso Campanella on a theological-political empire between the Old and the New worlds (16th-17th centuries)
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Charlevoix and the American savage: the 18th-century traveller as moralist
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Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description'
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Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910
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Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century
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To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal
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Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics
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The 'painting' of black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812)
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On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century
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Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Konferenzschrift
Mehr zum Autor:
Delmas, Adrien
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