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Early American Cartographies (Hardcover, New edition)
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Early American Cartographies (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before
colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen
essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous and
European peoples' creation and use of maps to better represent and
understand the world they inhabited. 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 Bruckner 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. This
volume not only highlights the collaborative genesis of
cartographic knowledge about the early Americas; the essays also
bring to light original archives and innovative methodologies for
investigating spatial relations among peoples in the western
hemisphere. Taken together, the authors reveal the roles of early
American cartographies in shaping popular notions of national
space, informing visual perception, animating literary imagination,
and structuring the political history of Anglo- and Ibero-America.
The contributors are: Martin Bruckner, University of Delaware
Michael J. Drexler, Bucknell University Matthew H. Edney,
University of Southern Maine Jess Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan
University Junia Ferreira Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil William Gustav Gartner, University of
Wisconsin-Madison Gavin Hollis, Hunter College of the City
University of New York Scott Lehman, independent scholar Ken
MacMillan, University of Calgary Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham
University Andrew Newman, Stony Brook University Ricardo Padron,
University of Virginia Judith Ridner, Mississippi State University
|Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from
before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The
fourteen essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous
and European peoples' creation and use of maps to better represent
and understand the world they inhabited.
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