Innocence Abroad: the Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670.(How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World )(Book Review)

Benjamin Schmidt Cambridge University Press 450 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] ($65) ISBN 0 521 80408 6 How to Write the History of the New World Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Jorge Caniizares-Esguerra Stanford University Press 450 pp.

40 [pounds sterling] ($55) ISBN 08047 4084 4 `O MY AMERICA! MY NEW-FOUND LAND ...' If John Donne hit upon an original way of apostrophising his mistress, he certainly chose an image well suited to appeal to his contemporaries, and, it is to be hoped, to the object of his ...

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