The infrastructure of globalisation. The printing press of the Southern netherlands and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire in Peru, 1535-1800. KU Leuven
Framework The contribution of prints to the European expansion and the globalisation of the Early Modern world can hardly be overestimated. Theknowledge of other continents circulated in Europe almost exclusively inthe shape of prints. Through books and engravings Europeans learned about civilisations at the other side of the world that had been visitedonly by a handful of conquerors, colonists and missionaries. Geographical and anthropological ...