A biography of a map in motion : Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake / Christian J. Koot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koot, Christian J., author.

Contributor:

Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herrman, Augustine, 1621 or 1622-1686.

Herrman, Augustine.

History.

Virginia--Maps--Early works to 1800--History.

Virginia.

Maryland--Maps--History.

Maryland.

Virginia--Maps--History.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

283 pages : illustrations, some color ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Reveals the little known history of one of history's most famous maps - and its maker Tucked away in a near-forgotten collection, Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited is one of the most extraordinary maps of colonial British America. Created by a colonial merchant, planter, and diplomat named Augustine Herrman, the map pictures the Mid-Atlantic in breathtaking detail, capturing its waterways, coastlines, and communities. Herrman spent three decades travelling between Dutch New Amsterdam and the English Chesapeake before eventually settling in Maryland and making this map. Although the map has been reproduced widely, the history of how it became one of the most famous images of the Chesapeake has never been told. A Biography of a Map in Motion uncovers the intertwined stories of the map and its maker, offering new insights into the creation of empire in North America. The book follows the map from the waterways of the Chesapeake to the workshops of London, where it was turned into a print and sold. Transported into coffee houses, private rooms, and government offices, Virginia and Maryland became an apparatus of empire that allowed English elites to imaginatively possess and accurately manage their Atlantic colonies. Investigating this map offers the rare opportunity to recapture the complementary and occasionally conflicting forces that created the British Empire.

Contents:

1 The Merchant 15

2 The Mapmaker 55

3 The Planter 105

4 The Patron and the Engraver 137

5 The Consumers 177.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

ISBN:

9781479837298

1479837296

OCLC:

1008910067

Publisher Number:

99975431804