Research Catalog

Title

The division of the world : on archives, empires and the vanity of borders / Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Martin Zimmerman ; translated by Henry Heitmann-Gordon.

Author

Schulz-Dornburg, Ursula

Publication

• London : Haus Publishing Ltd, 2021.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zimmermann, Martin, 1959-
• Heitmann-Gordon, Henry

Description

155 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Published here for the first time, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's historically unique photographs show the Archivo General de Indias in Seville before its reorganisation. Founded in 1785, this is the archive of roughly 300 years of Spanish colonial history in the Americas. It houses 8,000 charts and around 90 million documents--among them Christopher Columbus' logbook and the famous Treaty of Tordesillas which, mediated by the Pope and signed in 1494, entitled the Spanish and Portuguese kings to divide the word between them. With this treaty as a starting point, the historian Martin Zimmermann takes the reader on a journey into the age of discovery and recounts stories of dangerous passages, encounters with the unknown, colonial brutality, the power of the cartographer--and of the insatiable lust to conquer the entire world."--Book flap

Uniform Title

Teilung der Welt. English

Alternative Title

Teilung der Welt.

Subject

• Archivo General de Indias
• Archivo General de Indias > Pictorial works
• Archivo General de Indias
• To 1830
• Latin America > History > To 1830
• Caribbean Area > History > To 1810
• Caribbean Area
• Latin America

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works
• History
• Pictorial works
• Illustrated works.

Note

• "First published in German in 2020 as Die Teilung der Welt"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149).

Contents

Prologue-collected time -- I. An archive as a monument to power and historical retrospection -- II. The "Overview Effect" -- III. Divisions of the world -- IV. The divided world of the Mediterranean and the myth of gold over the seas -- V. Celebrating the new world -- expansion and the exchange of gifts -- VI. Dividing the world in the age of discovery -- the treaties of Tordesillas -- VII. The earth as a whole? -- VIII. The splendour of rule, humanitarian disasters and voices of warning.

Call Number

JFE 24-665

ISBN

• 1913368114
• 9781913368111

OCLC

1241245926

Author

Schulz-Dornburg, Ursula, author, photographer.

Title

The division of the world : on archives, empires and the vanity of borders / Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Martin Zimmerman ; translated by Henry Heitmann-Gordon.

Publisher

London : Haus Publishing Ltd, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149).

Local Note

STUDY OF THE SPANISH IMPERIAL ARCHIVES IN SEVILLE. B&W PHOTOGRAPHS. TRANS. FROM GERMAN.

Chronological Term

To 1830

Added Author

Zimmermann, Martin, 1959- author.

Heitmann-Gordon, Henry, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 24-665