Early American cartographies / edited by Martin Brückner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brückner, Martin, 1963- editor.

Contributor:

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, funder.

Newberry Library, funder.

University of Delaware. Department of English, contributor.

University of Delaware. College of Arts and Sciences, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--America--History.

Cartography.

America--Maps--History.

America.

America--Historical geography.

America--Historical geography--Maps.

Historical geography.

Genre:

Early works to 1800.

History.

Maps.

Physical Description:

xiii, 485 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

Ed. 1.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.

Summary:

"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 Brückner 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 [...] The essays also bring to light original archives and innovative methodologies for investigating spatial relations among peoples in the Western Hemisphere." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cartographic horizons and imperial politics. Deep archives ; or, the Empire has too many maps. From abstraction to allegory : the imperial cartography of Vicente de Memije / Ricardo Padrón

Centers and peripheries in English maps of America, 1590-1685 / Ken MacMillan

The (un)making of colonies. A compass of steer by : John Locke, Carolina, and the politics of restoration geography / Jess Edwards. Rebellious maps : José Joaquim da Rocha and the proto-independence movement in colonial Brazil / Junía Ferreira Furtado

Catographic encounters and local knowledge. Native maps / mapping natives. The wrong side of the map? : the cartographic encounters of John Lederer / Gavin Hollis

An image to carry the world within it : performance cartography and the Skidi Star Chart / William Gustav Gartner

Closing the circle : mapping a native account of colonial land fraud / Andrew Newman

Cosmopolitan maps. Competition over land, competition over empire : public discourse and printed maps of the Kennebec river, 1753-1755 / Matthew H. Edney

Building urban spaces for the interior : Thomas Penn and the colonization of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania / Judith Ridner. Mapping Havana in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1740-1762 / Scott Lehman

Meta-cartographies : icons, objects, and metaphors. National cartography and indigenous space in Mexico / Barbara E. Mundy

The spectacle of maps in British America, 1750-1800 / Martin Brückner

Hurricanes and revolutions / Michael J. Drexler.

Notes:

"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia ; The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture is sponsored jointly by the College of William and Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation." -- Provided by publisher.

"This volume received indirect support from an unrestricted book publication grant awarded to the [Omohundro] Institute by the L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation of Oakland, California ; Early American Cartographies has received a subvention from the general publications fund of the Newberry Library, Chicago, in recognition of its contributions to Renaissance studies and the history of cartography ; Publication of this book has been assisted by the College of Arts an Sciences and the Department of English at the University of Delaware." -- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Credit Line:

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.

ISBN:

9780807834695

0807834696

OCLC:

761014612