Latin America Voyages Cartography
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Latin America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
Latin America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with categories.
Latin America Voyages Cartography
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Author : Lange, Otto, firm, booksellers, Florence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
Latin America Voyages Cartography written by Lange, Otto, firm, booksellers, Florence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with categories.
Visual Voyages
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Author : Daniela Bleichmar
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01
Visual Voyages written by Daniela Bleichmar and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Art categories.
An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know as Latin America. Nature provided incentives for exploration, commodities for trade, specimens for scientific investigation, and manifestations of divine forces. It also yielded a rich trove of representations, created both by natives to the region and visitors, which are the subject of this lushly illustrated book. Author Daniela Bleichmar shows that these images were not only works of art but also instruments for the production of knowledge, with scientific, social, and political repercussions. Early depictions of Latin American nature introduced European audiences to native medicines and religious practices. By the 17th century, revelatory accounts of tobacco, chocolate, and cochineal reshaped science, trade, and empire around the globe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, collections and scientific expeditions produced both patriotic and imperial visions of Latin America. Through an interdisciplinary examination of more than 150 maps, illustrated manuscripts, still lifes, and landscape paintings spanning four hundred years, Visual Voyages establishes Latin America as a critical site for scientific and artistic exploration, affirming that region's transformation and the transformation of Europe as vitally connected histories.
Mapping Latin America
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Author : Jordana Dym
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-09-28
Mapping Latin America written by Jordana Dym and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-28 with History categories.
57 studies of individual maps and the cultural environment that they spring from and exemplify, including one pre-Columbian map.
A Geography Of Hard Times
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Author : Angela Perez-Mejia
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2004-04-08
A Geography Of Hard Times written by Angela Perez-Mejia and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience.
Mapping The Country Of Regions
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Author : Nancy P. Appelbaum
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2016-05-18
Mapping The Country Of Regions written by Nancy P. Appelbaum and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-18 with History categories.
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a "country of regions." By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's Colombians.
The Southernmost End Of South America Through Cartography
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Author : Luis Ignacio de Lasa
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-01-19
The Southernmost End Of South America Through Cartography written by Luis Ignacio de Lasa and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Science categories.
This volume describes the construction of the territorial identity of the southern end of South America and analyzes the cartographic territorialization of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the “Terra Australis” continent. Different spatial representations and territorial nature coexisted in this process as a result of the spatial interpretation and value modes as well as the projects and strategies of various actors. The book discusses the formal and symbolic incorporation to the Spanish dominion and its inclusion in the imperial design built over a new image of the world. Examining Jesuit cartography it considers both the indigenous territoriality and the dynamics of relations between natural and social components in the continental hinterland. The process of cartographic differentiation for this southern Atlantic region is analyzed in the framework of early Antarctic exploration and competing use of navigation routes and maritime resources. The book emphasizes the role geopolitical and economic interests play in these developments. The formation of territorialities of various origins has particular contents and logic, which are built upon imaginary subordination to political and economic interests. Cartographic language in the 19th century, associated with political and commercial motivations and the (British) imperial ideology, stimulated the territorial expansion. The book argues why in the late 1800's this was an important factor in the integration process of the southern indigenous territories and the national territoriality.
Maps Relating To Latin America In Books And Periodicals Comp By A Curtis Wilgus
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Author : Alva Curtis Wilgus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
Maps Relating To Latin America In Books And Periodicals Comp By A Curtis Wilgus written by Alva Curtis Wilgus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Latin America categories.
A Catalogue Of Latin American Flat Maps 1926 1964 Mexico Central America West Indies
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Author : Palmyra V. M. Monteiro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
A Catalogue Of Latin American Flat Maps 1926 1964 Mexico Central America West Indies written by Palmyra V. M. Monteiro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Reference categories.
Mapping Latin America
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Author : Jordana Dym
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-12-01
Mapping Latin America written by Jordana Dym and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with History categories.
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.