Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age (Hardcover)

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 order to encourage the commodification of land and an overall capitalist agenda. Building her exploration around the central figure of Claes Jansz Vischer, an Amsterdam-based publisher closely tied to the Dutch West India Company, Sutton shows how printed maps of Dutch Atlantic territories helped rationalize the Dutch Republic's global expansion. Maps of land reclamation projects in the Netherlands, as well as the Dutch territories of New Netherland (now New York) and New Holland (Dutch Brazil), reveal how print media were used both to increase investment and to project a common narrative of national unity. Maps of this era showed those boundaries, commodities, and topographical details that publishers-state-sponsored corporate bodies-and the Dutch West India Company merchants and governing Dutch elite deemed significant to their agenda. In the process, Sutton argues, they perpetuated and promoted modern state capitalism.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2015
Authors:	Elizabeth A. Sutton
Dimensions:	165 x 238 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-25478-4
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Maps, charts & atlases > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Promotions
LSN:	0-226-25478-X
Barcode:	9780226254784

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