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Soon after the ceremony, White fell ill and remained sick until the end of the winter.By this time, his work (and that of the other Jesuits) among the Indians was well known in England and America.Roger Williams, in 1643, wrote that "some ... boast of the Jesuits in Canada and Mary land" converting the Indians.4 2 While Father White was converting and healing Indians in Mary land, the political upheavals of the Interregnum began in England.Virginia and Maryland obtained information about the turmoil on January 30, 1642, when the Court of Northampton County, Virginia, seized two letters from William Webb to

Jack P. Greene (ed.) Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas 1600–1900. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii. 305. Empire suggests inclusion within an ever-expandin...

The American Revolution Jack P. Greene Jack P. Greene member of the Department of History, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Johns Hopkins University, John Carter Brown Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar research interests include most aspects of the early modern English/British empire in the Americas. Since 1966. This academic year, where he is completing a quantitative study of the social structure of settler Jamaica in the early 1750s and pondering how best to finish a multi-volume study of the changing representation of Britain's four most prized plantation colonies— Virginia, Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina—from the beginning of the seventeenth century through the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Author Notes The American Historical Review, Volume 105, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 93–102, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/105.1.93 Published: 01 February 2000

Abstract This article sets out to explore the longevity and tenacity of the torrid zone as an explanatory mechanism for describing the cultural characteristics of those populations living between the tropics during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By examining a series of colonizing missions and scientific expeditions to the New World, it argues that long before the iconic voyage of Alexander von Humboldt, which is thought to inaugurate a modern conception of the tropics, European travelers and natural philosophers were molding earlier geographical theories in ways that extended the life of certain pejorative stereotypes about non-European peoples. As such, it represents an important example of how geographical knowledge traveled across imperial lines and, more importantly, challenges scholars to use more expansive temporal ranges that normally separate the pre-European history of the Americas from its post-conquest phase.

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Summary A collection of 48 maps (13 manuscript and 35 printed), bound into a volume about the year 1683 when William Blathwayt was secretary to the Lords of Trade and Plantations, is now in the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. The maps cover all areas of British overseas interest in the second half of the seventeenth century, not only the North American colonies but also South America, Africa, and a single point in Asia ‐ Bombay. The printed maps and the manuscripts are of many kinds and found their way to the Plantations Office from a gTeat variety of sources. The paper discusses some of the problems involved in annotating these maps for a facsimile publication of the atlas. Only eleven of the maps carry dates, and only three of the thirteen manuscripts are signed. It has been possible, however, in a good many cases to place them in the context of specific deliberations and actions of the Lords of Trade, thus making evident the significance of the maps as documents for the historian of the colonies and of the development of the British Empire in the latter half of the seventeenth century. One example is discussed: a map of the island of Tobago, which is shown to have been an element in an unsuccessful colonial promotion scheme of the early 1680's and which throws some new light on the project, its timing, and its organizers.

Estudio preliminar del desarrollo demográfico de Guayaquil y Quito a fines el si-glo XIX e inicios del siglo XX, basado en los censos proto-estadísticos realizados en ambas ciudades en 1899 y 1906, respectivamente. Se estudian las condiciones en las que se realizaron ambos censos, la información cuantitativa que ofrecen y los vacíos que la historia demográfica aún mantiene. El artículo enfatiza en una perspectiva de análisis comparativo entre las dos principales ciudades del Ecua-dor. Se examina la composición poblacional en términos de grupos de edad, sexo, ocupación, matrimonio, natalidad, mortalidad y educación.

Since mid-2005, archivist–activists at the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala have been digitizing a century’s worth of previously suppressed police records so as to protect, mobilize and provide access to them – 23 million pages to date. We find that digitization amplified the staff’s repurposing of the archive to serve victims of human rights violations. Digitization enhances short- and long-term safeguards for the archive’s physical integrity, probative value and enduring accessibility, but has required critical human factors and institutional solidarity, most notably partnerships with international donors and allied organizations, and Guatemalan nongovernmental organizations. Finally, technology offers a lens to analyze the persistent challenges to promoting truth and justice in Guatemala. We show how simple, often ad hoc approaches to digitization developed under political urgency can have an irreversible impact when used to amplify a unified mission driven by a committed community of archival workers.

(1983). The first official maps of Maine and Massachusetts. Imago Mundi: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 37-57.

La Biblioteca Virtual de Polígrafos es el principal proyecto de la Fundación Ignacio Larramendi. Su objetivo es hacer accesible el pensamiento de los autores españoles, portugueses, brasileños y latinoamericanos de todos los tiempos.

En este trabajo propongo abordar uno de los escritos representativos de la diversidad de ideas y propuestas que caracterizaron al virreinato del Perú en el siglo XVIII: la «Representación y Exclamación rendida» (1750) escrita por el donado franciscano Calixto de San José Túpak Inka, en colaboración con el latinista Antonio Garro, en nombre de la «nación indiana». Aunque perteneciente al género del memorial, varios aspectos lo singularizan y destacan frente al modelo convencional. Dado que nuestro interés se centra en aproximarnos al modo como se gesta discursivamente una «nación» interétnica en un contexto de exacerbado colonialismo, indagaremos en los procedimientos estructurales y retóricos que producen el efecto de una representatividad homogénea. Asimismo, estudiaremos la función que adquiere la estilización de la tradición bíblica (las lamentaciones del profeta Jeremías) para tornar visible una situación de oprobio, que alcanza de esta manera una dimensión transtemporal. Por último, nos referiremos brevemente a otros documentos relacionados con Túpak Inka, que revelan la condición coyuntural de las alianzas interétnicas en el marco de la heterogeneidad sociocultural colonial.

Introduction: Digital Emblematica / Emblematica Númerique. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (‘Hi cursus fecere novos…’ Studies in Latin Humanism), on Érudit.

Worlds of difference. European discourses of toleration, c. 1100–c. 1500. By Cary J. Nederman. Pp. x+157. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. 18.95 (paper). 0 271 02016 4; 0 271 02017 2 - Volume 53 Issue 3

This chapter, written by William Eamon, explores a key harbinger of modernity appearing in the Renaissance: the invention of the idea of scientific discovery. The essay explores one side of that innovation by examining the emergence of the idea of medicine as a hunt for novel cures and, correspondingly, of science as a hunt for secrets of nature. America provided ample unexplored territory for natural history; there, the hunt for nature’s secrets bore fruit in the work of Iberian naturalists such as Francisco Hernández and Jesuit missionaries such as José de Acosta. The metaphor of the hunt, which permeated scientific discourse in the Renaissance, crafted a new understanding of scientific discovery.

A human life is not made up of measurable equal increments. There are crises, setbacks and advances, obstacles and pathways, highs and lows. The prevailing methods for the study of significant lives, insofar as there is any interest at all in the subject, are hampered by scientism and materialism. The means for understanding how we progress as individuals in relation to society and to the future of humankind cannot be found in the standard disciplines of psychology or sociology, which are looking for measurable results and are dominated by the quest for objectivity. Guided primarily by the thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, we observe here the patterns in the life of two pioneering physicians, centuries apart, Theophrastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, and Sigmund Freud. Inspiration, revelation, conversion, orientation, grace are at the center, but none of these terms is reducible to material measurement. A new approach is suggested that better informs us about what makes the world go ‘round, the grammatical imperative, which subsumes even love.

Anthony Grafton, among others, has written about the phenomenon, and historians in general know it well, that as important as the books or documents sought (but not always found) in libraries and archives may be, so too is the experience itself of visiting such institutions: of making time to read and reflect, of contemplating the shelves and consulting catalogues, and of speaking with librarians and meeting other readers. Gradually, one no longer is a stranger but becomes a member of the club, an institution “groupie” well known and welcomed. The John Carter Brown Library (www.jcbl.org) is one of these special places, capable of providing experiences that go far beyond mere access to books, even if those books are almost always beautiful and rare. Located in Providence in the state of Rhode Island, the John Carter Brown Library (or JCB) was founded in 1846 and has been located on the Brown University campus since 1901. It is an institution that is part of the same generation of various other independent research libraries that emerged in the U. S. between the late nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, including the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Huntington Library (San Marino, California), the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York), and the Folger Library (Washington, D. C.). What distinguishes these institutions (and there are dozens of others in the U. S.) is that they are not only repositories of printed and manuscript treasures but also centers for advanced research, offering hundreds of residential fellowships to scholars from many countries, organizing conferences and seminars, and publishing books and catalogues related to their collections. As such centers, the digital revolution does not threaten their existence because not only are the primary sources to be found there upon which historical research rests, i.e., the concrete original objects descended from the past, but they are also beehives of scholarly activity where one wants to be along with other researchers in residence. The majority of these private libraries were born of the will and money of men of industry, finance, and business whose collections naturally reflect their personal tastes, but these libraries also manifest the (many) opportunities afforded by the rare book market in the course of the past century. It is a familiar cultural phenomenon, although no longer as prevalent as it once was, that wealthy Americans could buy up tens of thousands of rare European imprints without much competition from the Continent itself. It is therefore not surprising that works essential to the study of the history of Portuguese expansion are held in these temples, as is the case, for example, of the Livro de Lisuarte de Abreu (ca. 1558-1564), some leaves of which were first acquired by J. Pierpont Morgan as early as 1912. Even to this day, the economic power of the United States, plus its extraordinary tradition of private philanthropy, combined with the knowledge of its directors and librarians, allows such institutions as the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota to have acquired in the past year rarities like a copy of Matteo Ricci’s magnificent world map (1602), for which it paid $1 million. Such is the universe of the John Carter Brown Library, which in December 2009 published an 800-page printed catalogue of a segment of its holdings, Portuguese and Brazilian Books in the John Carter Brown Library, 1537 to 1839, with a Selection of Braziliana Printed in Countries Other Than Portugal and

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HENRY CURSON-I Get access SAMUEL J. HOUGH SAMUEL J. HOUGH The John Carter Brown Library, Brown UniversityProvidence Rhode Island 92912, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 1968, Pages 64-a–64, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/15-2-64a Published: 01 February 1968

Religion, Power, and Politics in Colonial St. Augustine. By Robert L. Kapitzke. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp. 219. Illustrations. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 cloth. - Volume 59 Issue 4

Journal Article Jon Butler. Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 324. $27.95 Get access Butler Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 324. $27.95. Rhys Isaac Rhys Isaac LaTrobe University, Australia, and John Carter Brown Library, Providence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 106, Issue 3, June 2001, Pages 972–973, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/106.3.972-a Published: 01 June 2001