Mapping South American Promises: Potosí, Brazil, and European Visions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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“Nomen est omen”. A name is a prophecy, a destiny, or even a promise. Why was South America once referred to as Peru, “Peruana”, or “América Peruana”? What role did the Potosí Mountain play in shaping these designations? And how did these perceptions affect the lands of Brazil? This book offers new insights into these questions, exploring both the continuities and the shifts in European representations of South America. It reveals how, in the first two centuries of its history, Brazil compensated for the scarcity of gold and silver with brazilwood, sugar, the labor and souls of its indigenous peoples, the toil of enslaved Africans, and its geography.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-25
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt622 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMapping the Past
Antal sidor252
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004695108

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Andréa Doré, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil. Her main interests are the Iberian territories in the early modern period, with an emphasis on their geographical descriptions through maps and reports. She has published several articles and book chapters on these topics, as well as the book Sitiados. Os cercos às fortalezas portuguesas na Índia (Alameda 2010).

ContentsPreface to the English Language EditionAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroductionPart 1: Describing a Continent Called Peruana1 Naming a Continent2 Potosí, the Mountain of Silver3 Image Matrices1 Peruana2 Blaeu’s Mural Map3 Cosmography-Maps4 Images by Arnoldus MontanusPart 2: From Mirage to Mines4 “Pedestrian Realism” in Portuguese Cartography5 Between Vapors and Earthquakes: the Origin of Metals and the Lands of Brazil6 The Portuguese in Peru: Ambitious and SuspectConclusions: the Anti-shamanWorks CitedIndex