Innocence abroad : the Dutch imagination and the New World, 1570-1670 / Benjamin Schmidt.

Main entry:

Schmidt, Benjamin, author.

Title & Author:

Innocence abroad : the Dutch imagination and the New World, 1570-1670 / Benjamin Schmidt.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Description:

xxix, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"This digitally printed first paperback version 2006"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-443) and index.
Preface: Cultural Geography in an Age of Encounter -- 1. The Dutch Discovery of America -- 2. Revolutionary Geography -- 3. Innocence and Commerce Abroad -- 4. A Loss of Innocence -- 5. The Rise and Fall of America, or Tyranny Abroad -- Epilogue: The Dutch and Their New Worlds.

Summary:

"Innocence Abroad explores the process of encounter that took place between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "discovery" of America coincided with the foundation of the Dutch Republic, a correspondence of central significance for the Netherlands. From the opening of their revolt against Habsburg Spain through the climax of their Golden Age, the Dutch looked to America - in political pamphlets and patriotic histories, epic poetry and allegorical prints, landscape painting and decorative maps - for a means of articulating a new national identity. This book demonstrates how the image of America that was fashioned in the Netherlands, and especially the twin themes of "innocence" and "tyranny," became integrally associated in Dutch minds with evolving political, moral, and economic agendas. It investigates the energetic Dutch response to the New World while examining, more generally, the operation of geographic discourse and colonial ideology within the culture of the Dutch Golden Age."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780521804080
0521804086
9780521024556 (pbk. ; digitally printed)
0521024552 (pbk. ; digitally printed)

Subject:

Dutch literature 1500-1800 History and criticism.
Arts, Renaissance Netherlands.
Arts, Baroque Netherlands.
Littérature néerlandaise 1500-1800 Histoire et critique.
Arts de la Renaissance Pays-Bas.
Arts baroques Pays-Bas.
Amérique dans l'art.
Amérique dans la littérature.
Arts, Baroque
Arts, Renaissance
Civilization
Discoveries in geography Dutch
Dutch literature
Literature
Literatur
Culturele identiteit.
Beeldvorming.
Literatura neerlandesa Història i crítica.
Art del Renaixement Països Baixos.
Art barroc Països Baixos.
Amèrica en la literatura.
Amèrica en l'art.
America In literature.
America In art.
America Discovery and exploration Dutch.
Netherlands Civilization 16th century.
Netherlands Civilization 17th century.
Amérique Découverte et exploration néerlandaises.
Pays-Bas Civilisation 16e siècle.
Pays-Bas Civilisation 17e siècle.
Amérique Dans la littérature.
Amérique Dans l'art.
America
Netherlands
Amerika
Niederländisch.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220992
Call No.: PT5145.A47 S3 2001
Status: Available

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