Mapping South American Promises: Potosí, Brazil, and European Visions
Series: Mapping the Past; 7;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 25 September 2025
- ISBN 9789004695108
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Based on maps, cosmographies, and travel accounts, this book explores a period when South America was called Peruana. The main attraction on the continent was the Potosí mountain, which influenced not only the description of the lands, but also exploration projects in Brazil.
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?Nomen 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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