Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America - Softcover

Franklin, Wayne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226260720 ISBN 13: 9780226260723

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.

About this title

About the Author:

Wayne Franklin, MD Physician-Director, CME Programs Associate Professor of Pediatrics Children s Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois Dr. Franklin is a pediatric cardiologist who coordinates all CME and recertification review activities for Children s, as such he is expert in the content of the recertification exam and its structure.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0226260720
• ISBN 13: 9780226260723
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266