Far From the Truth

Introduction - van Groesen and Mueller / 1. Reports from the Edges of Iberian Empire - Blackmore / 2. Distance and Credibility in Sixteenth-Century Travel Writing: Discovery, Text, and Truth in Varthema, Vespucci, and Pigafetta - Rubies / 3. Copies with Wings: Bridging Distances by Printing the Familiar - Leitch / 4. The Philippines: Islands of the Mind - Padron / 5. Knowledge and Its Opposite: Antiquity, Parody, and Geographical Distance in Gabriel Rollenhagen's Four Indian Voyages - Mueller / 6. "I Am Giving You As Much As I Have": Distance and Credibility in Theophraste Renaudot's Gazette - van Groesen / 7. Contracting Trust? The Many Lives of Afro-European Treaties - Brauner / 8. Joseph Williamson and the Information Order of the Early English Empire - Popper / 9. Emotions as Guide to Untrustworthiness: John Lockman's Struggle with What He Could Not Check - Duerr / Epilogue - Ogborn.

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• Descobertas e explorações geográficas
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• História marítima
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• História geral e do mundo
• Geografia humana
• História da Europa

epistemology;intercultural communication;print culture studies;misinformation analysis;knowledge transmission;early modern media;verification of distant reports