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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill, NC :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2011]
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| Edition: | Edition 1. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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 Brückner provides a critical assessment of the concept of cartography and of the historiography of maps. The individual essays, then, range widely over space and place, from the imperial reach of Iberian and British cartography to indigenous conceptualizations, including "dirty," ephemeral maps and star charts, to demonstrate that pre-nineteenth-century American cartography was at once a multiform and multicultural affair. The essays also bring to light original archives and innovative methodologies for investigating spatial relations among peoples in the Western Hemisphere"--The publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia"--Page ii |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (504 pages): illustrations, maps |
| ISBN: | 9781469600802 |