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Early American cartographies
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- Creator
- edited by Martin Brückner
- Format
- Books; Maps, Atlases
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 485 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781469600802, 0807838721, 9780807838723, 9798890883612, 1469600803, 0807834696, 9780807834695
- OCLC
- ocn711043273, ocn861793475, ocn933516681, ocn761014612
- "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 / Ricardo Padrón -- Centers and peripheries in English maps of America, 1590-1685 / Ken MacMillan -- 2. 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 / Júnía Ferreira Furtado -- Part II: Cartographic encounters and local knowledge. 3. 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 -- 4. 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 -- Part III: 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