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A Biography of a Map in Motion - Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake (Hardcover)
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A Biography of a Map in Motion - Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake (Hardcover)
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Reveals the little known history of one of history's most famous
maps - and its maker Tucked away in a near-forgotten collection,
Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited is one of the
most extraordinary maps of colonial British America. Created by a
colonial merchant, planter, and diplomat named Augustine Herrman,
the map pictures the Mid-Atlantic in breathtaking detail, capturing
its waterways, coastlines, and communities. Herrman spent three
decades travelling between Dutch New Amsterdam and the English
Chesapeake before eventually settling in Maryland and making this
map. Although the map has been reproduced widely, the history of
how it became one of the most famous images of the Chesapeake has
never been told. A Biography of a Map in Motion uncovers the
intertwined stories of the map and its maker, offering new insights
into the creation of empire in North America. The book follows the
map from the waterways of the Chesapeake to the workshops of
London, where it was turned into a print and sold. Transported into
coffee houses, private rooms, and government offices, Virginia and
Maryland became an apparatus of empire that allowed English elites
to imaginatively possess and accurately manage their Atlantic
colonies. Investigating this map offers the rare opportunity to
recapture the complementary and occasionally conflicting forces
that created the British Empire. From the colonial and the
metropolitan to the economic and the political to the local and the
Atlantic, this is a fascinating exploration of the many meanings of
a map, and how what some saw as establishing a sense of local place
could translate to forging an empire.
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