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Mapping Nature across the Americas (Hardcover)
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Mapping Nature across the Americas (Hardcover)
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Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional
realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, they are abstractions that
capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place;
they require selections and omissions. These very characteristics,
however, give maps their importance for understanding how humans
have interacted with the natural world, and give historical maps,
especially, the power to provide rich insights into the
relationship between humans and nature over time. That is just what
is achieved in Mapping Nature across the Americas. Illustrated
throughout, the essays in this book argue for greater analysis of
historical maps in the field of environmental history, and for
greater attention within the field of the history of cartography to
the cultural constructions of nature contained within maps. This
volume thus provides the first in-depth and interdisciplinary
investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental
knowledge in the Americas-including, for example, stories of
indigenous cartography in Mexico, the allegorical presence of palm
trees in maps of Argentina, the systemic mapping of US forests, and
the scientific platting of Canada's remote lands.
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