Imagining the Americas in Print

Books, Maps and Encounters in the Atlantic World
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-34802-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress 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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Groesen, Michiel van

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Imagining the Americas in Print

The De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590–1634): Early America Reconsidered

2 Patagonian Giants in West Africa? Two Versions of the First Dutch Attempt to Circumnavigate the World

3 Dierick Ruiters’ Manuscript Maps and the Birth of the Dutch Atlantic

4 A Brazilian Jesuit in Amsterdam: Anti-Spanish and Anti-Catholic Rhetoric in the Early Dutch Golden Age

5 (No) News from the Western Front: The Weekly Press of the Low Countries and the Making of Atlantic News

6 Visualizing the News: The Amsterdam Spin-Doctor Claes Jansz Visscher and the West India Company

7 Beyond Law and Order: Encounters at Arguin and the Beginnings of the Dutch Slave Trade, 1633–1634

8 The Printed Book in the Dutch Atlantic World

9 Arnoldus Montanus, Dutch Brazil, and the Re-emergence of Cannibalism

10 The Atlantic World in Paperback: The Amsterdam Publisher Jan ten Hoorn and His Catalogue of Popular Americana

11 Heroic Memories: Admirals of Dutch Brazil in the Rise of Dutch National Consciousness

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University. He is the author of Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (2008) and Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil (2017).