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INTO THE AMAZON: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Richard Francaviglia
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Ryan M. Seidemann
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Thinking the Other: From Terra Australis Incognita to Terra Nullius Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Julien Hardy
At the end of the 18th century, when Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, recommended Botany Bay in Australia as an “advantageous” site to establish a new British penal colony, he did ...
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Intersensorial Race Science and Exploration in the Age of Jackson Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Chris M. Blakley
This essay examines the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 through the methodological lenses of sensory history and phenomenology. This expedition included naval personnel as well as a...
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Theodor De Bry’s Representations of the Americas and Indigenous Agency: A Reframing of Timucua Medical Practice Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Cortney Anne Berg
Theodor De Bry produced popular engravings of the Americas, Asia, and Africa for his published accounts of faraway places, constituting some of the earliest European ethnographic accounts. It has l...
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Infectious diseases and exploration history Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Hanna Barnett, Lauren Beck
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2024)
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Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Lydia Towns
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2024)
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“Ourselves Writ savage”: Disease, Desire, and Colonialism in Kuru Country Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Kelly L. Watson
This essay interrogates the intersections of colonialism, western science, and desire through an analysis of the outbreak of kuru in Papua New Guinea in the mid-20th century. I argue that cannibali...
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Mapping the Proposed Caribbean Zoonotic (Swine Influenza) Epidemic of 1493 As a Geographic Model of Infectious Virus Dispersion Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Al M. Rocca
This paper investigates the proposed 1493 zoonotic (swine influenza) pandemic that swept through the Spanish colony at La Isabela, Hispaniola. Primary and secondary accounts of the malady describe ...
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Introduction Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Gayle K. Brunelle
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2024)
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The Evolution of Maps Produced by Adam Gilg Between 1688–93: A Case-Study on the Production and Circulation of Jesuit Geographical Knowledge of Sonora Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Mirela Altic
The article investigates the progress in the geographical knowledge of Sonora based on explorations by Adam Gilg, a Moravian Jesuit in Spanish service. Gilg spent eighteen years (1688–1710) at the ...
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Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Ronald H. Fritze
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2024)
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The Globe: How the Earth Became Round Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Ryan Barker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2024)
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Shadowlands - A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Jenny Harvey
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2024)
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With Anza to California, 1775-1776: The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 John Hairr
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Courting India Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Matthew J. Schauer
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2024)
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Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Sarah Pickman
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2024)
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A Frenchman in the Solitudes of the Mexican Southeast: Désiré Charnay’s use of Landscapes and Emotions in the Construction of his Exploration Narrative and Identity Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Julieta I. Martínez
This article examines travel writings by Désiré Charnay, a French explorer better known for his work in the fields of archeology and photography than for his literary production. The article examin...
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Beyond Maximilian’s Empire: French Travelers and Explorers Throughout Nineteenth-Century Mexico Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Scott Beamon, Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 1, 2024)
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Humans and Nature in Texas and Tamaulipas Shaded by Sentimental Exoticism: Emmanuel Domenech’s Depictions of North America Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 José Enrique Covarrubias
Active as a Catholic priest in Texas and northern Mexico from 1846 to 1852, Emmanuel Domenech had the opportunity of traveling and collecting a good amount of information about the geography and po...
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Recent Literature in Exploration History Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Noah Baumgartner, Veronica Johnson
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 1, 2024)
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Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Ronald H. Fritze
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 1, 2024)
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The Global Turn in the History of French Imperialism: Power Beyond the Colonies Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Noah Glaser
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 1, 2024)
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A Nineteenth-Century French Migrant and Traveler in Northwestern Mexico: Gabriel Ferry’s Romantic Impressions of Landscapes, Economy, and Society Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Gerardo Manuel Medina Reyes
Louis-Eugène-Gabriel de Ferry de Bellemare, better known as Gabriel Ferry, was a Frenchman with a successful literary career. A native of Grenoble, he went to Mexico in the 1830s as part of a Frenc...
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The Indies of the Setting Sun Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Richard Pflederer
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 1, 2024)
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The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Erin C. Barr
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 1, 2024)
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Cinematic Journeys in Latin America: Geography Through the Lens of Exploration and Discovery Films Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ryan M. Seidemann
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 56, No. 1, 2024)
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“Weather, People, Ship”: The Environment’s Impact on Cook’s First Voyage into the Pacific Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Valerio Massimo Donati
This research explores how the eighteenth-century Pacific environment shaped James Cook’s first voyage into the South Seas. Although a multitude of different investigations and numerous biographies...
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Jolliet and Marquette: a New History of the 1673 Expedition Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 David Buisseret
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Cartography and Climate in Exploration History: The Cases of Cook, La Salle, and the Admiral’s Map Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Revisiting the “Admiral’s Map”: What Was It? And Who Was He? Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Gregory C. McIntosh
In the introduction to the appendix of modern maps by Martin Waldseemüller in the famous Strasbourg Ptolemy atlas of 1513 is a “puzzling sentence” that mentions a so-called “Admiral’s Map.” During ...
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Why La Salle Hung French Fortunes on a Western Branch: The Maps of Franquelin and Coronelli Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Richard Gross, Craig p. Howard
In 1684, La Salle proposed to establish a naval base for France on the doorstep of New Spain by sea. The site he chose was a fork in the Mississippi River 180 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. This wa...
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The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850 Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Benjamin B. Olshin
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Ryan M. Seidemann
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 David G. Schuster
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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CACICAS: The Indigenous Women leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825 Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Richard Francaviglia
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Gene Rhea Tucker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Ryan Barker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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The Voyage of Sutil and Mexicana 1792: The Last Spanish Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 John Hairr
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Rejoinder Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Leslie Trager
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Gene Rhea Tucker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Marckalada: Quando l’America aveva un altro nome Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Benjamin B. Olshin
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Mapping Christopher Columbus: An Historical Geography of His Early Life to 1492 Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Lydia Towns
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Georges Cuvier’s Autopsy Report on Sara Baartman: A translation and commentary Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Marguerite Johnson, Alistair Rolls
In the historical research on Sara Baartman, best known as the “Hottentot Venus,” references to and discussions of her autopsy report by Georges Cuvier have been based on the original French text, “Extrait d’observations faites sur le cadavre d’une femme connue à Paris et à Londres sous le nom de Vénus Hottentotte,” published in 1817. For scholars, students and the general public interested in the
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Ryan Barker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Recent Literature in the History of Exploration Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Noah Baumgartner, Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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In Search of Monsters: Constructing the “Other” in Spanish Chronicles of the Americas and Early Russian Descriptions of Siberia Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Anastasia V. Kalyuta
This article compares two geographically distant and not directly related traditions of constructing the “other” and “otherness” in the Age of Discovery. It discusses the indigenous populations of the Americas and Siberia as portrayed by Spanish and Russian chroniclers of late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, examining common points and differences in the construction of “the other” and “otherness
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The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 David Buisseret
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Jesuit Cartography in the Rockies: Pierre-Jean De Smet and the Mapping of Native Landscapes of the American Northwest Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Mirela Altic
In this paper, we study Jesuit mapmaking in North America in the period after the restoration of the Order (1814), when the Jesuits regained their important place as missionaries and explorers, playing a significant role in the mapping and territorialization of the United States. In the period between the 1830s and the 1850s, Flemish Jesuit Pierre-Jean De Smet mapped the territories of the future states
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Monsters, Freaks, and Indians: Characters in Exploration Narratives Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Ryan M. Seidemann
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Soviets in Space: Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Dennis Reinhartz
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Richard Francaviglia
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Nicholas Miller
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Is Waldseemüller’s “North America” Really Columbus’s Cuba? Investigating a Map Mystery and Other Episodes in the History of Cartography and Exploration Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2023)
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The Untold Story of Oceanic Pilot Bartolomeu Borges who Guided Jean Ribault to Florida in 1562: Document Transcription and Translation, Accompanied by an Historical Introduction Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Nuno Vila-Santa
Until now, Portuguese pilot Bartolomeu Borges has remained an obscure figure. A new document—a lengthy letter sent by D. Alonso de Tovar, the Spanish ambassador in Portugal, to King Philip II in 1563—allows us to reconstruct Borges’s career. It suggests that it was Borges (not Jean Ribault) who guided the first French expedition to Florida in 1562, and provides an instructive sixteenth-century case
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Giovanni da Carignano: Fourteenth-Century Cartographic Innovator Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Alberto Quartapelle
Giovanni da Carignano’s chart is a testimony to the technical development attained by Genoese cartography at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Carignano’s original chart—which was destroyed during World War II—has not been the subject of specific analysis. This study highlights the innovation introduced by Carignano: a new relationship between image and text. In his work, Carignano included
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Depicting Cuba, Not North America: Solving the Enigma of America on Early Maps Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Donald L. McGuirk Jr, Gregory C. McIntosh
Abstract The most important map in American history is the famous Martin Waldseemüller world map of 1507. Despite this position, its geography contains an unanswered mystery: “What current-day geography is represented by its large northwest landmass?” It appears to mimic the coast of North America, and many contemporary authors agree. There is a problem with this conclusion. The coast of North America
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An Exotic Geographical Excursus: Chapters 273-378 of the Third Book of the Cronica Universalis by Galvaneus Flamma Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Federica Favero
Chapters 273–378 of the Cronica universalis by the Milanese Dominican Galvaneus Flamma consist of a long geographical excursus – a sign of the author’s interest in the subject. This excursus describes places and cities (real or – for us – imaginary) of Asia, India, Africa, Northern Europe, and even Markland. The study of the sources used in the composition of the excursus allows us to observe first
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Terrae Incognitae (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 D. K. Abbass
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)