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Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670
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Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670 Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Benjamin Schmidt


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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 much significance for the Netherlands. From the opening of their Revolt against Hapsburg 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 fashioned by the Dutch, and especially the twin topoi of "innocence" and "tyranny," became integrally associated with evolving political, moral and economic agenda. It investigates the energetic Dutch response to the New World while examining, more generally, the operation of geographic discourse and colonial ideology within the Dutch Golden Age.

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To begin at a beginning - a speculative and retrospective, yet singular and imaginative beginning all the same, articulated in both word and powerful image: "There is . . . a landscape, essentially a West Indies landscape, with many naked people, a jagged cliff, and a strange construction of houses and huts."

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  • Title Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670
  • Author Benjamin Schmidt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 484
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2006-03-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521024556 / 0521024552
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1.2 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 16th Century
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Cultural Region: Benelux
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Dewey Decimal Code 839.310
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