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 early modern Europe gathered information and manufactured knowledge about the Americas, and used it to further their colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world.

A propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Michiel van Groesen
• Edition: Brill
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 25.10.2019
• EAN: 9789004348028
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34802-8
• Pages: 284
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 23 mm
• Poids: 386 g
• Thème: Library of the Written Word
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques