Smith's English-Latin Dictionary is an invaluable resource for Latin composition. Each entry gives an English word, its corresponding Latin equivalents, and examples drawn from a full range of classical writers.

This study of the Latin didactic poetry produced by the Jesuits in the early modern period reveals the literary qualities of these works, their compositional methods, and traditions.

Legal, theological and philosophical analysis of the ideology of colonialism.

The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen both for their representativeness and for their intrinsic value.

He cautions against dismissing these colonial texts as purveyors of ethnocentric stereotypes, asserting that they offer insights into Native American cultures.

In Harvest of Souls Carole Blackburn presents a contemporary interpretation of the 1632-1650 Relations, arguing that they are colonizing texts in which the Jesuits use language, imagery, and forms of knowledge to legitimize relations of ...

Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided ...

Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.