Imagining the Americas in Print
Books, Maps and Encounters in the Atlantic World
Published on 25. October 2019
Book
Leather / fine binding
284 pages
978-90-04-34802-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Michiel van Groesen's work makes an impact as substantial as that of the publishers and engravers he studies. Undoubtedly it will also be as enduring in its influence."Sabrina Alcorn Baron, University of Maryland. In: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60, No. 3 (July 2021), pp. 730-732.
"The variety of print and manuscript artifacts that Groesen examines, along with the depth and attention to detail he pays to his objects of study, make this book a worthy read for Atlantic and book historians alike."
Rachel Stein, Tulane University. In: Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 24. No. 4-5, (September 2020), pp. 445-447.
"Van Groesen's book represents a valuable contribution to transatlantic history, the history of the book, as well as the history of visual culture."
Mirela Altic, Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 678-681.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-34802-8 (9789004348028)
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Person
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).
Content
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
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