Amerasia
Introduction: The Unsettlement of the World -- Emergent Amerasia: India Beyond the Ganges -- What Did the Term New World Mean? -- Amerasian Magi -- Raphael's Global Philosophy -- Utopia at the Extremes of the Earth -- Columbus Meets Polo, or the Logic of Elliptical Continuity -- The Revelation...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Zone Books
2023
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> Geschichte 1492-1700
> Kartografie
> Reisebericht
> Darstellung
> Kunst
> Asien
> Indien
> Amerika
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: The Unsettlement of the World -- Emergent Amerasia: India Beyond the Ganges -- What Did the Term New World Mean? -- Amerasian Magi -- Raphael's Global Philosophy -- Utopia at the Extremes of the Earth -- Columbus Meets Polo, or the Logic of Elliptical Continuity -- The Revelation of the Earth: Parmigianino's Madonna of the Earthly Globe -- Copper Bells: The Search for Asia North of Mexico -- The Swelling Earth: French Navigations in the Amerasian Imaginary -- English Reflections of Amerasia -- Moctezuma the Great Khan and Tenochtitlan as Hangzhou: Caspar Vopel's Global Vision -- India as a Semantic Field -- The Biblical New World -- Amerasian Hieroglyphics -- Figuring the World I: The New World of Print -- Figuring the World II: The World in Its Parts -- Nacreous Amerasia: The Impact of the Manila Galleon -- Epilogue: Passages to India -- Amerasia Resurfaces -- Afterword: Chinese Catographers Map the World America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492. Through an array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and 1700, this compelling and revelatory study immerses the reader in a vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was marked by a variety of biblical and Asian sites. It asks, further: What does it mean that the Amerasian worldview predominated at a time when Europe itself was coming into cultural self-definition? Each of the chapters focuses on a particular artifact, map, image, or book that illuminates aspects of Amerasia from specific European cultural milieus. Amerasia shows how it was possible to inhabit a world where America and Asia were connected either imaginatively when viewed from afar, or in reality when traveling through the newly encountered lands. Readers will learn why early modern maps regularly label Mexico as India, why the "Amazonas" region was named after a race of Asian female warriors, and why artifacts and manuscripts that we now identify as Indian and Chinese are entangled in European collections with what we now label Americana. |
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| Beschreibung: | 464 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten 28 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781942130833 978-1-942130-83-3 |