The Representations of the Overseas World in the de Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634) - Couverture souple

Groesen, Michiel Van

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9004226788 ISBN 13 : 9789004226784

Editeur : Brill, 2012

Synopsis

This book deals with the De Bry collection of voyages, one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and the New World. It discusses this editorial strategy in the context of the publishing industry around 1600, investigating the biography of the De Brys, the publications of the Frankfurt firm, and the making of the collection, as well as its reception by Iberian inquisitors and seventeenth-century readers across the Old World. The book draws on a wide variety of primary sources, and is hence important for historians, book historians, and art historians interested in the development of Europe's overseas empires.

Originally published in hardcover.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michiel van Groesen, (1975) Ph.D. with honours in History, University of Amsterdam, is lecturer in American History and Early Modern History at this institution. He works on European representations of the overseas world, with particular interest for Dutch images of the Atlantic world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004226788
• ISBN 13: 9789004226784
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 578
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible