Imagining the Americas in print : books, maps and encounters in the Atlantic world / by Michiel van...
Imagining the Americas in print : books, maps and encounters in the Atlantic world / by Michiel van...
Imagining the Americas in print : books, maps and encounters in the Atlantic world / by Michiel van Groesen.
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Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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G 2020/6090
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 272 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 a...
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Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
"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 manufa...
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Imagining the Americas in print : books, maps and encounters in the Atlantic world / by Michiel van Groesen.
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Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 74
The handpress world ; volume 57
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online version Groesen, Michiel van. Imagining the Americas in print Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019 9789004348035 (DLC) 2019026745
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G 2020/6090
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74VKaZzq8Zll
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZzq8Zll
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ISBN
9789004348028 hardback acid-free paper
DDC
070.509492
MMS ID
991024290318602626
