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Diplomatic uses of Brazil's island myth cartographic and historiographic polemics

This article analyses the formation of Brazil's island myth and how it was represented in the XVI and XVII cartography. It also discusses how this myth was used and reused for diplomatic porpoises.

Historiography; Cartography; Brazil's island myth


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