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Sprache(n):
eng - English
Datum:
20162016
Publikationsstatus:
Erschienen
Seiten:
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Ort, Verlag, Ausgabe:
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
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