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L'Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century
 
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ISBN13:9789004708310
ISBN10:9004708316
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:344 pages
Size:235x155 mm
Weight:787 g
Language:English
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L'Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century

 
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Short description:

This book is centered on how the cartography of the Americas produced by the French cartographer J.B.B. d?Anville and the Portuguese diplomat D. Luis da Cunha in the 18th century inspired and influenced Brazil?s modern-day borders.

Long description:
This book explores how the origins of Brazil?s modern borders can be traced to the cartography of the Americas produced by the eighteenth-century French cartographer J.B.B. d?Anville. It argues that this map reflects the geopolitical policies of the Portuguese diplomat D. Luis da Cunha, who was involved in Portugal?s negotiations with the Spanish to formally establish Brazil?s frontiers, and highlights how and why these policies were adopted in the Treaty of Madrid in 1750.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations



Introduction



Part 1: Oracles



1 D. Luis da Cunha: Oracle of Geopolitics

 1 Mirror for a Prince

 2 The Fifth Evangelist

 3 Academies

 4 The Ambassador and the Art of Diplomacy

 5 The Salons and the Dinner Table



2 Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d?Anville: Oracle of Geography

 1 An Armchair Geographer and His Fortune

 2 Origins and Education

 3 Between an Oblong and an Oblate Earth

 4 Paper Earth

 5 Royal Geographer



Part 2: Encounters



3 Minerva?s Forest: the Ambassador, the Cartographer, and D. Jo?o V?s Royal Library

 1 An Enlightened King and His Library

 2 Delisle and the New Measuring of the Tordesillas Meridian

 3 Mathematical Instruments and Their Experts

 4 Maps and Prints

 5 The Tordesillas Meridian



4 The Portuguese Imperium in D. Luis da Cunha?s Geopolitical View and the Formulation of Uti possidetis

 1 Minas Gerais Captaincy or the Old Lady?s Goods

 2 The State of Maranh?o and the Mill Mule

 3 The Colônia do Sacramento or the Touchstone

 4 The Fernando de Noronha Island, the War of Jenkins?s Ear, and the English Threat

 5 The Uti possidetis or the Colonization as an Act of Possession



Part 3: Maps



5 Amérique méridionale, a Modern Knowledge

 1 An Enlightened Map

 2 Placing Names

 3 Map Sources

 4 Oracles of a Living Geography

 5 The Nunes Brothers



6 Amérique méridionale, a Distorting Mirror

 1 The Blank and the Void

 2 Simulacra

 3 The Amazonas Warriors

 4 El Dorado

 5 The Return of Parima



Epilogue: A Lost Treasure

 1 Diplomacy and Cartography

 2 The Rio de la Plata Basin

 3 The Midwest and Amazonia

 4 Cabo do Norte and the Guianas

 5 The Treaty of Madrid and Uti possidetis

 6 The Amérique méridionale versus the Mapa das cortes



Bibliography

Index