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Mapping South American Promises: PotosÃ, Brazil, and European Visions
Series: - Mapping the Past, Volume: 7
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âNomen est omenâ. A name is a prophecy, a destiny, or even a promise. Why was South America once referred to as Peru, âPeruanaâ, or âAmérica Peruanaâ? What role did the Potosà 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.
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 à s fortalezas portuguesas na Ãndia (Alameda 2010).
Contents
Preface to the English Language Edition
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
1 Naming a Continent
2 PotosÃ, the Mountain of Silver
3 Image Matrices
â1âPeruana
â2âBlaeuâs Mural Map
â3âCosmography-Maps
â4âImages by Arnoldus Montanus
4 âPedestrian Realismâ in Portuguese Cartography
5 Between Vapors and Earthquakes: the Origin of Metals and the Lands of Brazil
6 The Portuguese in Peru: Ambitious and Suspect
Conclusions: the Anti-shaman
Works Cited
Index
Preface to the English Language Edition
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
Part 1: Describing a Continent Called Peruana
1 Naming a Continent
2 PotosÃ, the Mountain of Silver
3 Image Matrices
â1âPeruana
â2âBlaeuâs Mural Map
â3âCosmography-Maps
â4âImages by Arnoldus Montanus
Part 2: From Mirage to Mines
4 âPedestrian Realismâ in Portuguese Cartography
5 Between Vapors and Earthquakes: the Origin of Metals and the Lands of Brazil
6 The Portuguese in Peru: Ambitious and Suspect
Conclusions: the Anti-shaman
Works Cited
Index
This book is relevant for researchers, scholars, students, and a wider public interested in early Latin American history and the history of cartography.