L'Amerique Meridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations



Introduction



Part 1: Oracles

1 D. Luis da Cunha: Oracle of Geopolitics

?1?Mirror for a Prince

?2?The Fifth Evangelist

?3?Academies

?4?The Ambassador and the Art of Diplomacy

?5?The Salons and the Dinner Table



2 Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Oracle of Geography

?1?An Armchair Geographer and His Fortune

?2?Origins and Education

?3?Between an Oblong and an Oblate Earth

?4?Paper Earth

?5?Royal Geographer



Part 2: Encounters

3 Minerva's Forest: the Ambassador, the Cartographer, and D. Joao V's Royal Library

?1?An Enlightened King and His Library

?2?Delisle and the New Measuring of the Tordesillas Meridian

?3?Mathematical Instruments and Their Experts

?4?Maps and Prints

?5?The Tordesillas Meridian



4 The Portuguese Imperium in D. Luis da Cunha's Geopolitical View and the Formulation of Uti possidetis

?1?Minas Gerais Captaincy or the Old Lady's Goods

?2?The State of Maranhao and the Mill Mule

?3?The Colonia do Sacramento or the Touchstone

?4?The Fernando de Noronha Island, the War of Jenkins's Ear, and the English Threat

?5?The Uti possidetis or the Colonization as an Act of Possession



Part 3: Maps

5 Amerique meridionale, a Modern Knowledge

?1?An Enlightened Map

?2?Placing Names

?3?Map Sources

?4?Oracles of a Living Geography

?5?The Nunes Brothers



6 Amerique meridionale, a Distorting Mirror

?1?The Blank and the Void

?2?Simulacra

?3?The Amazonas Warriors

?4?El Dorado

?5?The Return of Parima



Epilogue: A Lost Treasure

?1?Diplomacy and Cartography

?2?The Rio de la Plata Basin

?3?The Midwest and Amazonia

?4?Cabo do Norte and the Guianas

?5?The Treaty of Madrid and Uti possidetis

?6?The Amerique meridionale versus the Mapa das cortes



Bibliography

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