Em Nome de Deus

Ames, Glenn Joseph (Übers.):
Em nome de Deus : the Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India, 1497-1499 / transl. and ed. by Glenn J. Ames. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2009. - xiv, 184 S. - (European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; 4)
ISBN 978-90-04-17643-0
EUR 75,00

Beschreibung
The voyage of Vasco da Gama to India (1497-1499) was one of the seminal events of the Renaissance period. An anonymous Journal kept by a member of his fleet has long served as the main documentary source for accounts of this voyage. Strangely, there has only been one English translation of this important document, published more than a century ago. This book provides a new, updated English translation of the Journal with extensive editorial notes and appendices which encompass and reflect changes in the historiography over the last century on Vasco da Gama and his first voyage. In doing so, it examines initial Portuguese impressions when confronted by the cultures of Africa and India during this period. [Verlagsinformation]

Übersetzer
GLENN J. AMES, Ph.D. (1987) in History, University of Minnesota, is Professor of History at The University of Toledo, Ohio (USA). He has published extensively on the Age of Discoveries and European expansion to Asia, including Vasco da Gama: Renaissance Crusader (2005) and The Globe Encompassed: The Age of European Discovery (2008). Profile.

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