Capitalism and cartography in the Dutch Golden Age /
In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as propaganda tools for the Dutch West India Company in or...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Capitalism, cartography, and culture. Early modern capitalism and cartography ; Theorizing capitalist cartography
- Amsterdam Society and maps. The market for maps ; Organization of government and the WIC ; Pictorial and intellectual foundations ; Social organization and hierarchy
- Capitalism and cartography in Amsterdam. The virtuous merchant and the Republic ; Visscher and the Amsterdam map tradition ; The Beemster ; The grid, private property, and the commonwealth
- Profit and possession in Brazil. Visscher's WIC-authorized map of Pernambuco ; Johan Maurits and the development of Recife and Mauritsstad ; Blaeu and Barlaeus's representation of Brazil ; Possession according to Grotius ; Natural rights, sugar, and human exploitation ; Trying times: 1648
- Marketing New Amsterdam. Picturing New Amsterdam ; WIC colonial policies 1629-49: possession, boundaries, patroons, and natives ; The 1649 affair ; New Amsterdam renewed
- Capitalism and cartography revisited.
