Imagining the Americas in Print Books Maps and Encounters in the Atlantic by MICHIEL VAN GROESEN (original) (raw)

By analysing the European imagination of the New World through sixteenthand seventeenth-century print sources, the author illustrates its gradual transition from curiosity and stereotypes to the Transatlantic World in which imagining served a clear political purpose. The book consists of nine chapters of which, with the exception of Chapters 8 and 10, seven have been previously published (in English or Dutch) and, with some small modifications, gathered here under the common title, making a good intersection of Atlantic history.