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Book SynopsisRepresenting the New World argues for the importance of Spain in the New World as an example of France and England in their efforts to establish colonies and suggests that this example was ambivalent and contradictory as well as surprisingly persistent in the representations of Spain in French and English texts concerning the Americas.
Trade ReviewAlthough a study of rhetoric and literary texts, Hart's unique study will interest all students of the early modern age of exploration. Choice
Table of Contents* Establishing and Questioning Empire, 1492-1547 * Uncertainty and Strife, 1548-1566 * Facing the Greatness of Spain , 1567-1588 * The Making of Permanent Colonies, 1589-1642 * Rivaling and Succeeding Spain, 1643-1713
