Michael Householder
Ashgate
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Through an in-depth analysis of writings by John Mandeville Richard Eden George Best Ralph Lane John Smith and John Underhill this study traces the selection combination adaptation and invention of rhetorical strategies which English-speaking Europeans used to make sense of their encounters with the Americas. The author explores how these rhetorical strategies enabled European colonists to form new ways of understanding themselves and their relationship to the indigenous inhabitants.
Ashgate
Hardback
250
Through an in-depth analysis of writings by John Mandeville Richard Eden George Best Ralph Lane John Smith and John Underhill this study traces the selection combination adaptation and invention of rhetorical strategies which English-speaking Europeans used to make sense of their encounters with the Americas. The author explores how these rhetorical strategies enabled European colonists to form new ways of understanding themselves and their relationship to the indigenous inhabitants.