Amerasia

Abstract

"This book explores the many ways in which European artists, writers, and cartographers described and represented an Amerasian continuum in the first two centuries after Columbus."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction: The Unsettlement of the World -- Emergent Amerasia: India Beyond the Ganges -- What Did the Term New World Mean? -- Amerasian Magi -- Raphael's Global Philosophy -- Utopia at the Extremes of the Earth -- Columbus Meets Polo, or the Logic of Elliptical Continuity -- The Revelation of the Earth: Parmigianino's Madonna of the Earthly Globe -- Copper Bells: The Search for Asia North of Mexico -- The Swelling Earth: French Navigations in the Amerasian Imaginary -- English Reflections of Amerasia -- Moctezuma the Great Khan and Tenochtitlan as Hangzhou: Caspar Vopel's Global Vision -- India as a Semantic Field -- The Biblical New World -- Amerasian Hieroglyphics -- Figuring the World I: The New World of Print -- Figuring the World II: The World in Its Parts -- Nacreous Amerasia: The Impact of the Manila Galleon -- Epilogue: Passages to India -- Amerasia Resurfaces -- Afterword: Chinese Catographers Map the World.