In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which early modern Europe gathered information and manufactured knowledge about the Americas, and used it to further their colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world.

Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University. He is the author of Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (2008) and Amsterdam's Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil (2017).