Early American cartographies / edited by Martin Brückner.

"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia"--Page ii

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cartographic horizons and imperial politics: Deep archives : 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.

"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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