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Mapping South American Promises: Potosí, Brazil, and European Visions / Andréa Doré.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doré, Andréa, author.
- Series:
- Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
- Mapping the Past ; 7.
- Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025
- Mapping the Past ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Studies.
- Book History and Cartography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- “Nomen est omen”. A name is a prophecy, a destiny, or even a promise. Why was South America once referred to as Peru, “Peruana”, or “América Peruana”? What role did the Potosí Mountain play in shaping these designations? And how did these perceptions affect the lands of Brazil? This book offers new insights into these questions, exploring both the continuities and the shifts in European representations of South America. It reveals how, in the first two centuries of its history, Brazil compensated for the scarcity of gold and silver with brazilwood, sugar, the labor and souls of its indigenous peoples, the toil of enslaved Africans, and its geography.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Preface to the English Language Edition
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Part 1: Describing a Continent Called Peruana
- 1 Naming a Continent
- 2 Potosí, the Mountain of Silver
- 3 Image Matrices
- 1 Peruana
- 2 Blaeu’s Mural Map
- 3 Cosmography-Maps
- 4 Images by Arnoldus Montanus
- Part 2: From Mirage to Mines
- 4 “Pedestrian Realism” in Portuguese Cartography
- 5 Between Vapors and Earthquakes: the Origin of Metals and the Lands of Brazil
- 6 The Portuguese in Peru: Ambitious and Suspect
- Conclusions: the Anti-shaman
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-72486-9
- OCLC:
- 1537948194
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004724860 DOI
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