Ernst van den Boogaart studied history at Brandeis University and the University of Amsterdam. He writes mainly about the Dutch expansion in the Atlantic and has curated exhibitions on the Dutch in Brazil and on the Dutch discovery of AustraliaJan Huygen van Linschoten was a Dutchman who in 1596 wrote the famous Itinerario, an account of his travel to the Indian Peninsular, with engravings and captions. This work reproduces these engravings and captions together with extensive analysis.Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1562 1611) was a Dutchman who, in 1596, penned the famousItinerario, an account of his journey to the Indian Peninsula and its eastern surroundings that described the inhabitants of this vast region and quickly became a travel guide for everyone going there. It has also become a classic in the history of European expansion because Van Linschoten is held as a key eyewitness to the Portuguese Asian empire at its height, and as one who worked to shift the center of European expansion from the Iberian peninsula and Italy to the Netherlands and England. In 1604 he published an abridged version, theIcones et Habitus Indorum, which contained 36 of the engravings from theItinerariotogether with Latin captions. This very rare print was hardly known to anyone for many years.Civil and Corrupt Asiareproduces these engravings and their extensive captions in English, together with an analysis of them by historian Ernst van den Boogaart. He unravels the hidden meaning of the prints, explaining what the posture and dress of depicted individuals, and the details of larger scenes, were intended to convey to the knowledgeable reader of the seventeenth century. For instance, their accompanying captions invite the viewer to read the ethnographic descriptions in an analytical way and to rate the societies in the different parts of Asia, including Portugese Goa, according to civility. In addition to providing valuable depictions of peoples, customs, and flora and fauna of late sixteenth-century India, the engravings provide unparalleled insights into the inventiveness of early-modern Dutch print culture by offering readers a means of coping intelligently with new information about strange customs.Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1562-1611) was a Dutchman who, in 1596, penned the famousItinerario,an account of his travel to the Indian Peninsula and its eastern surroundings that described the inhabitants of this vast region and quickly became a travel guide for everyone going there. Van Linschoten is held as a key eyewitness of the Portuguese-Asian empire at its height, and as one who worked to shift the center of European expansion from the Iberian peninsula and Italy to the Netherlands and England. In 1604 he published an abridged version, theIcones et Habitus Indorum,which contained 36 of the engravings from theItinerariotogether with Latin captions. Divine and Spoiled Asiareproduces these engravings and their captions (in English), together with an extensive analysis of them by historian Ernst van den Boogaart. In addition to providing unparalleled insights into early modern European views of the East, the engravings also contain valuable depictions of the peoples, customs, and flora and fauna of late sixteenth-century India and neighboring countries.Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.
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