Early American cartographies / edited by Martin Brückner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Brückner, Martin, 1963- editor.

Series:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--America--History.

Cartography.

America--Maps--History.

America.

America--Historical geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 p.)

Edition:

Ed. 1.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Summary:

Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before colonisation to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen chapters in this book 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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Plurality of Early American Cartography; PART I. CARTOGRAPHIC HORIZONS AND IMPERIAL POLITICS; 1. DEEP ARCHIVES; OR, THE EMPIRE HAS TOO MANY MAPS; From Abstraction to Allegory: The Imperial Cartography of Vicente de Memije; Centers and Peripheries in English Maps of America, 1590-1685; 2. THE (UN)MAKING OF COLONIES; A Compass to Steer by: John Locke, Carolina, and the Politics of Restoration Geography; Rebellious Maps: José Joaquim da Rocha and the Proto-Independence Movement in Colonial Brazil

PART II. CARTOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE3. NATIVE MAPS / MAPPING NATIVES; The Wrong Side of the Map? The Cartographic Encounters of John Lederer; An Image to Carry the World within It: Performance Cartography and the Skidi Star Chart; Closing the Circle: Mapping a Native Account of Colonial Land Fraud; 4. COSMOPOLITAN MAPS; Competition over Land, Competition over Empire: Public Discourse and Printed Maps of the Kennebec River, 1753-1755; Building Urban Spaces for the Interior: Thomas Penn and the Colonization of Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania

Mapping Havana in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1740-1762PART III. META-CARTOGRAPHIES: ICONS, OBJECTS, AND METAPHORS; National Cartography and Indigenous Space in Mexico; The Spectacle of Maps in British America, 1750-1800; Hurricanes and Revolutions; Notes on Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908836-0-5

979-88-908836-1-2

0-8078-3872-1

1-4696-0080-3

OCLC:

861793475