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Innocence Abroad

Innocence Abroad

Schmidt, Benjamin

Hardcover

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0521804086
ISBN13: 9780521804080
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 12 2001
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.33 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
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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