Description: Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book brings to light the dynamic world of the German Renaissance, in which humanists, cartographers, reformers, politicians, botanists, and merchants appropriated the Portuguese and Spanish expeditions to the East and West Indies for their own purposes and, in so doing, reshaped their world.Studies in Early Modern German History
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"Johnson's prose is lucid, lively, graceful, sometimes witty, and always accessible. Her work is full of fascinating material that most scholars, to say nothing of students, will not know, and swarms with superb and often unexpected illustrative examples and amazing stories. A superb addition to the literature available in English."
--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University