TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dams,Britt
TI  - Dutch Brazil in the Early Modern Imaginary: From Description to Classification of Lands and Peoples, 1624–1654 
T2  - Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026
SN  - 9789004754393
AV  - F1418 
U1  - 327.73/08 
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - American Studies
KW  - Book History and Cartography
KW  - Early Americas
KW  - History of Cartography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004754393
ER  -