{"product_id":"the-german-discovery-of-the-christine-r-johnson-9780813927343","title":"The German Discovery of the World: Renaissance Encounters with the Strange and Marvelous","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurrent historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable \"other\" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. \u003ci\u003eThe German Discovery of the World\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, and scientific developments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in an engaging and accessible style, this book brings to light the dynamic world of the German Renaissance, in which humanists, cartographers, reformers, politicians, botanists, and merchants appropriated the Portuguese and Spanish expeditions to the East and West Indies for their own purposes and, in so doing, reshaped their world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudies in Early Modern German History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine R. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081392734X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813927343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Christine R. Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059831435519,"sku":"9780813927343","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7b7b1e59-b841-49a0-addf-dc9adf503c01.jpg?v=1685060579","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-german-discovery-of-the-christine-r-johnson-9780813927343","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}