Dutch Brazil in the Early Modern Imaginary : From Description to Classification of Lands and Peoples, 1624–1654 /
Dams, Britt,
Dutch Brazil in the Early Modern Imaginary : From Description to Classification of Lands and Peoples, 1624–1654 / From Description to Classification of Lands and Peoples, 1624–1654 Britt Dams. - 1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations. - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026 European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; 50 . - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026 European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; 50. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Between 1624 and 1654 Dutch authors shifted from marvellous travel tales to methodical inventories that aimed at deeper comprehension of Brazil. This book traces that evolution through four cornerstone texts— Nieuwe Wereldt , Iaerlijck Verhael , Rerum per Octennium , and Historia naturalis Brasiliae —read alongside maps, West India Company papers, and incisive illustrations. Planters, soldiers, and Indigenous go-betweens supplied the field notes that allowed for ethnography and natural history to take empirical form. By tracking how writers labelled landscapes, plants, animals, and peoples, the study shows how description itself became a tool of Dutch colonial power.
English
9789004754393
10.1163/9789004754393 DOI
American Studies.
Book History and Cartography.
Early Americas.
History of Cartography.
F1418
327.73/08
Dutch Brazil in the Early Modern Imaginary : From Description to Classification of Lands and Peoples, 1624–1654 / From Description to Classification of Lands and Peoples, 1624–1654 Britt Dams. - 1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations. - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026 European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; 50 . - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026 European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; 50. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Between 1624 and 1654 Dutch authors shifted from marvellous travel tales to methodical inventories that aimed at deeper comprehension of Brazil. This book traces that evolution through four cornerstone texts— Nieuwe Wereldt , Iaerlijck Verhael , Rerum per Octennium , and Historia naturalis Brasiliae —read alongside maps, West India Company papers, and incisive illustrations. Planters, soldiers, and Indigenous go-betweens supplied the field notes that allowed for ethnography and natural history to take empirical form. By tracking how writers labelled landscapes, plants, animals, and peoples, the study shows how description itself became a tool of Dutch colonial power.
English
9789004754393
10.1163/9789004754393 DOI
American Studies.
Book History and Cartography.
Early Americas.
History of Cartography.
F1418
327.73/08