Cartographic Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cartographic Mexico write by Raymond B. Craib. This book was released on 2004. Cartographic Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico, particularly political uses of mapping and surveying, to demonstrate multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas.
Traveling from New Spain to Mexico
Traveling from New Spain to Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traveling from New Spain to Mexico write by Magali M. Carrera. This book was released on 2011-06-03. Traveling from New Spain to Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How colonial mapping traditions were combined with practices of nineteenth-century visual culture in the first maps of independent Mexico, particularly in those created by the respected cartographer Antonio Garc&ía Cubas.
Mapping Latin America
Mapping Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Latin America write by Jordana Dym. This book was released on 2011-12-01. Mapping Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn’t, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these sorts of questions about maps of Latin America, and in doing so illuminate the ways cartography has helped to shape this region from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. In Mapping Latin America,Jordana Dym and Karl Offen bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine and interpret more than five centuries of Latin American maps.Individual chapters take on maps of every size and scale and from a wide variety of mapmakers—from the hand-drawn maps of Native Americans, to those by famed explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt, to those produced in today’s newspapers and magazines for the general public. The maps collected here, and the interpretations that accompany them, provide an excellent source to help readers better understand how Latin American countries, regions, provinces, and municipalities came to be defined, measured, organized, occupied, settled, disputed, and understood—that is, how they came to have specific meanings to specific people at specific moments in time. The first book to deal with the broad sweep of mapping activities across Latin America, this lavishly illustrated volume will be required reading for students and scholars of geography and Latin American history, and anyone interested in understanding the significance of maps in human cultures and societies.
Trail of Footprints
Trail of Footprints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trail of Footprints write by Alex Hidalgo. This book was released on 2019-07-12. Trail of Footprints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Trail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A collection of sixty largely unpublished maps from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and made in the southern region of Oaxaca anchors an analysis of the way ethnically diverse societies produced knowledge in colonial settings. Mapmaking, proposes Hidalgo, formed part of an epistemological shift tied to the negotiation of land and natural resources between the region’s Spanish, Indian, and mixed-race communities. The craft of making maps drew from social memory, indigenous and European conceptions of space and ritual, and Spanish legal practices designed to adjust spatial boundaries in the New World. Indigenous mapmaking brought together a distinct coalition of social actors—Indian leaders, native towns, notaries, surveyors, judges, artisans, merchants, muleteers, collectors, and painters—who participated in the critical observation of the region’s geographic features. Demand for maps reconfigured technologies associated with the making of colorants, adhesives, and paper that drew from Indian botany and experimentation, trans-Atlantic commerce, and Iberian notarial culture. The maps in this study reflect a regional perspective associated with Oaxaca’s decentralized organization, its strategic position amidst a network of important trade routes that linked central Mexico to Central America, and the ruggedness and diversity of its physical landscape.
Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas write by Ernesto Capello. This book was released on 2020-11-16. Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual culture across the Americas, arguing that acts of measurement are also aesthetic acts. Such visual interventions intersect with new technologies, with sociopolitical power and conflict, and with shifting public tastes and consumption practices. Several key questions shape this examination: What kinds of nineteenth-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? What are the commonalities and distinctions in mapping strategies between North and South America? How does the constitution of expeditionary lines reorder space and the natural landscape itself? The volume represents the first transnational and hemispheric analysis of nineteenth-century cartographic aesthetics, and features the multi-disciplinary perspective of historians, geographers, and art historians.
