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Mapping the Renaissance World
The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery
E-Book
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ISBN-13:
9780745683683
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
E-Book
Seiten:
216
Autor:
Frank Lestringant
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable E-Book
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
Translator's Preface.Introduction: Renaissance and Cosmography.1. The Cosmographical Model.2. Ancient Lessons: A Bookish Orient.3. Mythologics: The Invention of Brazil.4. Mythologics II: Amazons and Monarchs.5. Cartographics: An Experience of the World and an Experimenton the World.Epilogue: The End of Cosmography.Appendices.Notes.Index.