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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
20162016
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
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Publishing info:
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Renaissance maps and the concept of the human
1. Climate, culture or kinship? Explaining human diversity c.1500
2. Atlantic empires, map workshops and Renaissance geographical culture
3. Spit-roasts, barbecues and the invention of the Brazilian cannibal
4. Trade, empires and propaganda: Brazilians on French maps in the age of François I and Henri II
5. Monstrous ontology and environmental thinking: Patagonia's giants
6. The epistemology of wonder: Amazons, headless men and mapping Guiana
7. Civility, idolatry and cities in Mexico and Peru
8. New sources, new genres and America's place in the world, 1590–1645
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Rev. Type:
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Degree:
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