Early American Cartographies

Description

"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"--The publisher.

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Other Editions

• Early American CartographieshardcoverOmohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press2011-12-15
• Early American CartographiesOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture2012-01-01
• Early American CartographiesUniversity of North Carolina Press2014-01-01