Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel

by Jonathan Locke Hart, Glenn Burger, Jonathan Hart, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888643772
• ISBN13: 9780888643773
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 6.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up