Memory of the World - Latin America and the Caribbean
Lesage's Historical, Geneological, Chronological, and Geographic Atlas, written by Count de Las Casas, translated, corrected and enriched by an American Spaniard, published in 1826
The Atlas was initially published in French with 13 soldout editions despite its high price Napoleon Bonaparte who was a personal friend of the author was one to most frequently reference it The wars of American Independence aroused an unusual interest in Las Casas which motivated him to order a second edition He hired an American politician a proindependence American Spaniard hidden under the pseudonym of Andrés de Arango to translate correct and update the work The Atlas contains the first essay on the historical and political interpretation of the American countries that were independent from Spain The work presents an outline of the first map of the American continent showing ten countries Argentina Chile Paraguay Bolivia called Upper Peru Peru called Lower Peru Colombia Central America Haiti and Mexico In his introduction the author classifies Brazil and the United States as foreign countries Alaska as Russian America and Greenland Labrador North Hudson Bay Guyana the Amazonian riverbanks part of Paraguay Patagonia and the Araucanian country as little known The edition was sent to bookshops in Mexico Guatemala and Santiago de Chile capitals where it was intended to be political propaganda in favour of emancipation It also circulated in Madrid Lisbon London Bordeaux Bayonne Marseilles Perpignan and Toulouse
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