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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Groesen, Michiel van (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:Library of the written word ; 74.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 57.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Publishers and publishing > Netherlands > History > 16th century.
Publishers and publishing > Netherlands > History > 17th century.
Publishers and publishing > Europe > History.
Travelers' writings > Publishing > History.
Public opinion > Netherlands > History.
Public opinion > Europe > History.
Écrits de voyageurs > Édition > Histoire.
Opinion publique > Pays-Bas > Histoire.
Opinion publique > Europe > Histoire.
Discoveries in geography
Netherlandish colonies
Public opinion
Public opinion, Dutch
Public opinion, European
Publishers and publishing
America > Foreign public opinion, Dutch > History.
America > Foreign public opinion, European > History.
America > Discovery and exploration.
Netherlands > Colonies > History.
Amérique > Découverte et exploration.
Pays-Bas > Colonies > Histoire.
America
Europe
Netherlands
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634): Early America Reconsidered
  • Patagonian Giants in West Africa? Two Versions of the First Dutch Attempt to Circumnavigate the World
  • Dierick Ruiters' Manuscript Maps and the Birth of the Dutch Atlantic
  • A Brazilian Jesuit in Amsterdam: Anti-Spanish and Anti-Catholic Rhetoric in the Early Dutch Golden
  • (No) News from the Western Front: The Weekly Press of the Low Countries and the Making of Atlantic news
  • Visualizing the News: The Amsterdam Spin-Doctor Claes Jansz Visscher and the West India Company
  • Beyond Law and Order: Encounters at Arguin and the Beginnings of the Dutch Slave Trade, 1633-1634
  • The Printed Book in the Dutch Atlantic World
  • Arnoldus Montanus, Dutch Brazil, and the Re-emergence of Cannibalism
  • The Atlantic World in Paperback: The Amsterdam Publisher Jan ten Hoorn and His Catalogue of Popular Americana
  • Heroic Memories: Admirals of Dutch Brazil in the Rise of Dutch National Consciousness.

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