Early American Cartographies

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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 Bruckner 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. This volume not only highlights the collaborative genesis of cartographic knowledge about the early Americas; the essays also bring to light original archives and innovative methodologies for investigating spatial relations among peoples in the western hemisphere. Taken together, the authors reveal the roles of early American cartographies in shaping popular notions of national space, informing visual perception, animating literary imagination, and structuring the political history of Anglo- and Ibero-America. The contributors are: Martin Bruckner, University of Delaware Michael J. Drexler, Bucknell University Matthew H. Edney, University of Southern Maine Jess Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University Junia Ferreira Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil William Gustav Gartner, University of Wisconsin–Madison Gavin Hollis, Hunter College of the City University of New York Scott Lehman, independent scholar Ken MacMillan, University of Calgary Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham University Andrew Newman, Stony Brook University Ricardo Padron, University of Virginia Judith Ridner, Mississippi State University Cover Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: The Plurality of Early American Cartography 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 Centers and Peripheries in English Maps of America, 1590–1685 2. THE (UN)MAKING OF COLONIES A Compass to Steer by: John Locke, Carolina, and the Politics of Restoration Geography Rebellious Maps: José Joaquim da Rocha and the Proto-Independence Movement in Colonial Brazil PART II. CARTOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE 3. NATIVE MAPS / MAPPING NATIVES The Wrong Side of the Map? The Cartographic Encounters of John Lederer An Image to Carry the World within It: Performance Cartography and the Skidi Star Chart Closing the Circle: Mapping a Native Account of Colonial Land Fraud 4. COSMOPOLITAN MAPS Competition over Land, Competition over Empire: Public Discourse and Printed Maps of the Kennebec River, 1753–1755 Building Urban Spaces for the Interior: Thomas Penn and the Colonization of Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Mapping Havana in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1740–1762 PART III. META-CARTOGRAPHIES: ICONS, OBJECTS, AND METAPHORS National Cartography and Indigenous Space in Mexico The Spectacle of Maps in British America, 1750–1800 Hurricanes and Revolutions Notes on Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Пустая страница