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Early American cartographies /

"Drawing from both current historical interpretations and new interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection provides diverse approaches to understanding the multilayered exchanges that went into creating cartographic knowledge in and about the Americas. In the introduction, editor Martin Brü...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Otros Autores: Brückner, Martin, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Edición:Edition 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cartographic horizons and imperial politics: Deep archives : 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 ; The (un)making of colonies: 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
  • Catographic encounters and local knowledge: Native maps / mapping Natives: 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 ; Cosmopolitan maps: 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
  • Meta-cartographies : icons, objects, and metaphors: 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.