Desde los aportes de los debates historiográficos europeos de los años cincuenta y el giro humanista en las ciencias sociales, se considera un conjunto de categorías de unos transdisciplinar, como la representación y la alteridad, entre otras, que permiten dilucidar las posibilidades epistémicas de un sujeto propio de la historia marítima, de gran utilidad a los estudios sobre la América colonia.
En el primer libro de la colección se compilan una serie de artículos que abordan, desde distintas perspectivas, algunos de los enigmas que aquella geografía especulativa planteó a los expedicionarios, que buscaron resolverlos con sus sorprendentes viajes, en los que se conjugaban los intereses, ambiciones, ilusiones, imaginarios, mentiras y conocimientos que con tanto cuidado luego fueron registrados en los maravillosos mapas producidos a partir del siglo XVI.
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