About this title: "Marvelous Possessions" is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1991-10-14
ISBN-13:9780226306513ISBN:0226306518
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780226306513ISBN:0226306518
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press 1992
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780226306520ISBN:0226306526
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780226306520ISBN:0226306526
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780226306513ISBN:0226306518
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780226306520ISBN:0226306526
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13:9780226306520ISBN:0226306526
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1992-10-15
ISBN-13:9780226306520ISBN:0226306526
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780226306520ISBN:0226306526
Description: As New with no dust jacket. 0226306526. A Trade Paperback in a like new condition. "Marvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. "; B&W Illustrations; 0.7 x 8.8 x 6 Inches; 202 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The University of Chicago Pres, Chicago
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780226306513ISBN:0226306518
Description: Fine condition in a fine dust jacket. The Wonder of the New World. 202 pp. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. read more
"Greenblatt's argument is that most of the early world transactions were motivated by complicated desires of wonder, rather than the typical disparaging white-man greed usually attributed to them. He makes an interesting case, even when examining the most complicated of self-promoters (Columbus, Mandeville) and those who are normally not canonical in these early travel writings. Where Greenblatt is helpful is in looking at the specific language of the narratives he analyzes and finding an archetypal condition for these encounters; yet there is also a sense that in creating an "archetype" he also assumes a type based on a few narratives. Like the explorers he describes, Greenblatt's imagination is large, but it seems that in his recognition of a creation of a colonial self, he ignores some larger issues of emergent and submerging psychological selves that need to be considered.
Nonetheless, as with all Greenblatt, a fascinating read."
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