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The Many Landfalls of John Cabot.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Heritage SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442681699
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Many Landfalls of John CabotLOC classification:
  • E129.C1 P674 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- 1 An Introduction -- 2 Everything We Know about John Cabot -- The Documents We Lack -- Cabot -- Bristol Explorations -- The Voyage of 1497 -- The Landfall -- After the Landfall -- 3 Legends of Sebastian -- The Cabot That Time Forgot -- The Achievement of Sebastian Cabot -- Sebastian Cabot Lied -- The Resurrection of John -- 4 The Many Landfalls -- Newfoundland: Bonavista -- Labrador -- Cape Breton Island -- Maine or Southern Nova Scotia -- The Strait of Belle Isle -- 5 Traditions of Invention, 1897: Columbus, Cartier, and Cabot -- The Invention of Tradition -- Columbus in America, 1892 -- Cabot in Canada, 1897 -- Cabot in Newfoundland, 1897 -- Cabot versus Cartier -- The Contest of Traditions -- Philatelic Commemoratives -- 6 The History of Discovery -- The Legendary History of Britain -- Before History -- 'Discovery' -- Atlantic Asymmetry -- Old World Traditions -- 7 A Memory Perpetual -- Discovery and Possession -- 1502/1761/1897: Savage Men, Dominion, and a Picturesque Incident -- Cabot in 1997 -- In Summary -- NOTES -- CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Pope contrasts what we know about Cabot with what we think we know, and shows how the invention of various traditions has shaped debates about his landing in North America.
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COVER -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- 1 An Introduction -- 2 Everything We Know about John Cabot -- The Documents We Lack -- Cabot -- Bristol Explorations -- The Voyage of 1497 -- The Landfall -- After the Landfall -- 3 Legends of Sebastian -- The Cabot That Time Forgot -- The Achievement of Sebastian Cabot -- Sebastian Cabot Lied -- The Resurrection of John -- 4 The Many Landfalls -- Newfoundland: Bonavista -- Labrador -- Cape Breton Island -- Maine or Southern Nova Scotia -- The Strait of Belle Isle -- 5 Traditions of Invention, 1897: Columbus, Cartier, and Cabot -- The Invention of Tradition -- Columbus in America, 1892 -- Cabot in Canada, 1897 -- Cabot in Newfoundland, 1897 -- Cabot versus Cartier -- The Contest of Traditions -- Philatelic Commemoratives -- 6 The History of Discovery -- The Legendary History of Britain -- Before History -- 'Discovery' -- Atlantic Asymmetry -- Old World Traditions -- 7 A Memory Perpetual -- Discovery and Possession -- 1502/1761/1897: Savage Men, Dominion, and a Picturesque Incident -- Cabot in 1997 -- In Summary -- NOTES -- CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Pope contrasts what we know about Cabot with what we think we know, and shows how the invention of various traditions has shaped debates about his landing in North America.

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