A map will often tell as much about its creator as it does about the territory it represents. This volume examines more than five centuries of cartography mapping South America.</div>
Mapping latin America: a cartographic reader
✍ Scribed by Offen, Karl;Dym, Jordana
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 360
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
The Nineteenth Century: Enlightenment, independence, and the Nation-State. Mapping mountains / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Traversing space / D. Graham Burnett -- Cutting across / Peter H. Dana -- Minerals and war / Karl Offen -- Initial boundaries / Jordana Dym -- Interior designs / Lina del Castillo -- Historical geographies / Raymond B. Craib -- Drawing the line / Paula Rebert -- Measuring up and fitting in / Carla Lois -- Coffee grounds / Stefania Gallini -- Portraying and planning a city / Fernando Pérez Oyarzún and José Rosas Vera -- From field to port / Michael Johns -- The life of a map / Raymond B. Craib -- The Twentieth Century: maps for every purpose and many new mapmakers. Educating the nation / Lina del Castillo -- Recordering our world / Jennifer A. Jolly -- National production / Carla Lois -- Representing the nation / Sarah A. Radcliffe -- Ties that bind / Marie Price -- A fruit company town / John Soluri -- Tropical modernism / Sylvia Ficher and Francisco Leitão -- On the road / James R. Akerman -- Mass transit / Alain Musset -- Open for business / Altha J. Cravey.;The Colonial Period: explorations and empires. Palace arts / Francisco Estrada-Belli and Heather Hurst -- America / John Hébert -- Charting shores / Ricardo Padrón -- Fabled land / D. Graham Burnett -- Indigenous civilization / Barbara E. Mundy -- Projecting order / Richard L. Kagan -- Hybrid space / Barbara E. Mundy -- Litigating land / Barbara E. Mundy -- Mining mountains / Peter Bakewell -- Between two seas / W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz -- Bourbons and water / Vera S. Candiani -- Andean empire / Rolena Adorno -- Imperial rivalries / Matthew Restall -- Allegory and empire / Ricardo Padrón -- Edge of empire / Karl Offen -- Mapping New Spain borderlands / Dennis Reinhartz -- Forts and ports / Joseph L. Scarpaci -- Estate maps / David Buisseret -- Myths and measurements / Neil Safier -- Creole landscapes / Magali M. Carrera -- Cartographic independence / Junia Ferreira Furtado.;Mayas and tourism markets / Walter E. Little -- National security and transnational insecurity / Michael J. Schroeder -- Revolutionary power, divided state / Joaquín M. Chávez -- Controlling people and space / Matthew J. Taylor and Michael K. Steinberg -- Sewing resistance / Ericka Kim Verba -- Vertical environments / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Renewed El Dorado / Christian Brannstrom -- Hydrologic modeling / Jessica Budds -- GIS maps and the Amazon borderlands / David S. Salisbury -- Ethnic mapping / Gregory Knapp -- Making black territories / Karl Offen -- Ironies of conservation mapping / Anthony Stocks and Peter Taber -- Mapping the Pemon homeland / Bjørn Sletto.
✦ Table of Contents
The Colonial Period: explorations and empires. Palace arts / Francisco Estrada-Belli and Heather Hurst --
America / John Hébert --
Charting shores / Ricardo Padrón --
Fabled land / D. Graham Burnett --
Indigenous civilization / Barbara E. Mundy --
Projecting order / Richard L. Kagan --
Hybrid space / Barbara E. Mundy --
Litigating land / Barbara E. Mundy --
Mining mountains / Peter Bakewell --
Between two seas / W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz --
Bourbons and water / Vera S. Candiani --
Andean empire / Rolena Adorno --
Imperial rivalries / Matthew Restall --
Allegory and empire / Ricardo Padrón --
Edge of empire / Karl Offen --
Mapping New Spain borderlands / Dennis Reinhartz --
Forts and ports / Joseph L. Scarpaci --
Estate maps / David Buisseret --
Myths and measurements / Neil Safier --
Creole landscapes / Magali M. Carrera --
Cartographic independence / Junia Ferreira Furtado. The Nineteenth Century: Enlightenment, independence, and the Nation-State. Mapping mountains / Karl S. Zimmerer --
Traversing space / D. Graham Burnett --
Cutting across / Peter H. Dana --
Minerals and war / Karl Offen --
Initial boundaries / Jordana Dym --
Interior designs / Lina del Castillo --
Historical geographies / Raymond B. Craib --
Drawing the line / Paula Rebert --
Measuring up and fitting in / Carla Lois --
Coffee grounds / Stefania Gallini --
Portraying and planning a city / Fernando Pérez Oyarzún and José Rosas Vera --
From field to port / Michael Johns --
The life of a map / Raymond B. Craib --
The Twentieth Century: maps for every purpose and many new mapmakers. Educating the nation / Lina del Castillo --
Recordering our world / Jennifer A. Jolly --
National production / Carla Lois --
Representing the nation / Sarah A. Radcliffe --
Ties that bind / Marie Price --
A fruit company town / John Soluri --
Tropical modernism / Sylvia Ficher and Francisco Leitão --
On the road / James R. Akerman --
Mass transit / Alain Musset --
Open for business / Altha J. Cravey. Mayas and tourism markets / Walter E. Little --
National security and transnational insecurity / Michael J. Schroeder --
Revolutionary power, divided state / Joaquín M. Chávez --
Controlling people and space / Matthew J. Taylor and Michael K. Steinberg --
Sewing resistance / Ericka Kim Verba --
Vertical environments / Karl S. Zimmerer --
Renewed El Dorado / Christian Brannstrom --
Hydrologic modeling / Jessica Budds --
GIS maps and the Amazon borderlands / David S. Salisbury --
Ethnic mapping / Gregory Knapp --
Making black territories / Karl Offen --
Ironies of conservation mapping / Anthony Stocks and Peter Taber --
Mapping the Pemon homeland / Bjørn Sletto.
✦ Subjects
Cartographie--Amérique latine--Histoire;Cartography--Latin America--History;Cartography;History;Cartography -- Latin America -- History;Cartographie -- Amérique latine -- Histoire;Amérique Latine -- Cartographie -- Histoire;Latin America;Amérique latine -- Cartographie -- Histoire
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