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Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin - A Cartographic History (Paperback, New)
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Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin - A Cartographic History (Paperback, New)
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The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to
be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to
European-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In
Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, geographer-historian
Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin's gradual emergence
from its ""large cartographic silence"" both paralleled the
development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and
cartography, and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of
the European colonial powers and the United States. Francaviglia's
compelling, wide-ranging discussion combines an explanation of the
physical realities of the Great Basin with a cogent examination of
the ways humans, from early Native Americans to nineteenth-century
surveyors to twentieth-century highway and air travelers, have
understood, defined, and organized this space, psychologically and
through the medium of maps. This book explores the relationship
between mapmakers from various cultures and nations - Spain,
Mexico, France, England and the Americas - and shows how their maps
of the Great Basin reflected attitudes and beliefs about what lay
in the interior American West. These maps run the gamut, from the
manuscript maps of early explorers to printed maps used to promote
rail and air travel across the Great Basin, as well as satellite
and computer-derived maps of the very recent past. This rich
interdisciplinary account of the mapping of the Great Basin
combines a chronicle of the exploration of the region with a
history of the art and science of cartography and of the political,
economic, and social contexts in which maps are created. The result
is an impressive contribution to the canon of American Western
history and of the evolution and multifarious functions of maps,
ancient and modern. Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin will
be irresistible to historians, geographers, lovers of maps, and
anyone who thrills to the exploits of early Western explorers.
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