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Imagining the Americas in print : books, maps and encounters in the Atlantic world /
"In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which publishers and printers in early modern Europe gathered information about the Americas, constructed a narrative, and used it to further colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world (1500-1700). The essays...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Library of the written word ;
74. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 57. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which publishers and printers in early modern Europe gathered information about the Americas, constructed a narrative, and used it to further colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world (1500-1700). The essays examine the creative ways in which knowledge was manufactured in printing workshops. Collectively they bring to life the vivid print culture that determined the relationship between the Old World and the New in the Age of Encounters, and chart the genres that reflected and shaped the European imagination, and helped to legitimate ideologies of colonialism in the next two centuries"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004348035 9004348034 |
| ISSN: | 1874-4834 ; |