Annotation
"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, ed…
Mapping nature across the Americas
"Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities on two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very characteristics, however, that…
Mapping nature across the Americas
People's nature.Staking claims on native lands: the symbolic power of indigenous cartographic conventions in the Ayer map of Teotihuacan Mexico (1560) and its copies /Jennifer Saracino ;Into the interior: reading the native landscape of the Great Lakes in European maps, 1612-175…
Mapping nature across the Americas
"Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities on two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very characteristics, however, that…
Mapping nature across the Americas
"Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities on two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very characteristics, however, that…
« In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded The Society of Jesus, also known as The Jesuits. The Society's goal was to revitalize the faith of Catholics and to evangelize to non-Catholics through charity, educa…
The history and concept of Jesuit mapmaking -- The possessions of the Spanish crown -- The viceroyalty of Peru -- Portuguese possessions: Brazil -- New France: searching for the Northwest Passage. "In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Sai…
Analyzing more than 150 historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits' significant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World.
"Analyzing more than 150 historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits' significant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World. In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded the Socie…
"In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded The Society of Jesus, also known as The Jesuits. The Society's goal was to revitalize the faith of Catholics and to evangelize to non-Catholics through charity, educat…