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‘World of empires’ examines the emergence of America—both as an idea and as a lived reality—from the sixteenth through early eighteenth centuries. The discovery of America had dramatic intellectual consequences not only for those explorers and settlers who traveled to the New World, but also for European thought more broadly. The transplanted Europeans were as different from each other as they were from the many tribes of indigenous people they encountered. Thus, wrestling with the diversity of people, ways of life, and worldviews became the main feature of early American thought. |
