Early American cartographies
2011
912.73 E13 2011
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Title
Early American cartographies
Published
Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Description
xiii, 485 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
912.73 E13 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)711043273
Note
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Provides wide range over space and place, from the imperial reach of Iberian and British cartography to indigenous conceptualizations, including ephemeral maps and star charts, to demonstrate pre-19th century American cartography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: From abstraction to allegory: the imperial cartography of Vicente de Memije / Ricardo Padrón -- Centers and peripheries in English maps of America, 1590-1685 / Ken MacMillan -- A compass of steer by:John Locke, Carolina, and the Politics of Restoration Geography / Jess Edwards -- Rebellious maps: José Joaquim da Rocha and the Proto-Independence Movement in Colonial Brazil / Junía Ferreira Furtado -- The wrong side of the map? The cartographic encounters of John Lederer / Gavin Hollis -- An image to carry the world within it: performance cartography and the Skidi Star Chart / William Gustav Gartner -- Closing the circle: mapping a native account of colonial land fraud / Andrew Newman -- Competition over land, competition over empire: public discourse and printed maps of the Kennebec river, 1753-1755 / Matthew H. Edney -- Building urban spaces for the interior: Thomas Penn and the colonization of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania / Judith Ridner -- Mapping Havana in the gentleman's magazine, 1740-1762 / Scott Lehman -- National cartography and indigenous space in Mexico / Barbara E. Mundy -- The spectacle of maps in British America, 1750-1800 / Martin Brückner -- Hurricanes and revolutions / Michael J. Drexler.
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Provides wide range over space and place, from the imperial reach of Iberian and British cartography to indigenous conceptualizations, including ephemeral maps and star charts, to demonstrate pre-19th century American cartography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: From abstraction to allegory: the imperial cartography of Vicente de Memije / Ricardo Padrón -- Centers and peripheries in English maps of America, 1590-1685 / Ken MacMillan -- A compass of steer by:John Locke, Carolina, and the Politics of Restoration Geography / Jess Edwards -- Rebellious maps: José Joaquim da Rocha and the Proto-Independence Movement in Colonial Brazil / Junía Ferreira Furtado -- The wrong side of the map? The cartographic encounters of John Lederer / Gavin Hollis -- An image to carry the world within it: performance cartography and the Skidi Star Chart / William Gustav Gartner -- Closing the circle: mapping a native account of colonial land fraud / Andrew Newman -- Competition over land, competition over empire: public discourse and printed maps of the Kennebec river, 1753-1755 / Matthew H. Edney -- Building urban spaces for the interior: Thomas Penn and the colonization of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania / Judith Ridner -- Mapping Havana in the gentleman's magazine, 1740-1762 / Scott Lehman -- National cartography and indigenous space in Mexico / Barbara E. Mundy -- The spectacle of maps in British America, 1750-1800 / Martin Brückner -- Hurricanes and revolutions / Michael J. Drexler.
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