Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires

237 Pages·2021·77.868 MB·English

by  Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti, Filipe Dos Reis

Mapping, Connectivity
and the Making
of European Empires
Global Epistemics
In partnership with the Centre for Global
Knowledge Studies (gloknos)
Founding Editor:
Inanna Hamati-Ataya (University of Cambridge)
Editorial Assistants:
Felix Anderl and Matthew Holmes (University of Cambridge)
Editorial Review Board:
Rigas Arvanitis (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) |
Jana Bacevic (University of Cambridge) | Patrick Baert (University
of Cambridge) | Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (University of
Chicago) | Maria Birnbaum (University of Bern) | Avital
Bloch (Universidad de Colima) | Jenny Boulboullé (Utrecht
University) | Jordan Branch (Brown University) | Sonja
Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) |
Karine Chemla (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique &
Université de Paris) | David Christian (Macquarie University) |
James H. Collier (Virginia Tech) | Steven Connor (University
of Cambridge) | Helen Anne Curry (University of Cambridge) |
Shinjini Das (University of East Anglia) | Sven Dupré (Utrecht
University) | David Edgerton (King’s College London) | Juan
Manuel Garrido Wainer (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) | Simon
Goldhill (University of Cambridge) | Anna Grasskamp (Hong
Kong Baptist University) | Clare Griffin (Nazarbayev
University) | Marieke Hendriksen (Utrecht University) | Dag
Herbjørnsrud (Senter for global og komparativ idéhistorie) |
Noboru Ishikawa (Kyoto University) | Christian Jacob (Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) | Martin Jones (University of
Cambridge) | Katarzyna Kaczmarska (University of Edinburgh) |
Isaac A. Kamola (Trinity College, Connecticut) | Alexandre
Klein (Université Laval) | Tuba Kocaturk (Deakin University) |
Pablo Kreimer (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) | Michèle
Lamont (Harvard University) | Helen Lauer (University of Dar es
Salaam) | G.E.R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge) | Carlos
López-Beltrán (National Autonomous University of Mexico) |
Eric Lybeck (University of Manchester) | Christos
Lynteris (University of St Andrews) | Amanda Machin
(Witten-Herdecke University) | Tara Mahfoud (King’s College
London) | Maximilian Mayer (University of Nottingham Ningbo) |
Willard McCarty (King’s College London) | Atsuro Morita (Osaka
University) | Iwan Morus (Aberystwyth University) | David
Nally (University of Cambridge) | John Naughton (University of
Cambridge) | Helga Nowotny (ETH Zurich) | Johan Östling (Lund
University) | Ingrid Paoletti (Politecnico di Milano) | V. Spike
Peterson (University of Arizona) | Helle Porsdam (University
of Copenhagen) | David Pretel (The College of Mexico) | Dhruv
Raina (Jawaharlal Nehru University) | Amanda Rees (University
of York) | Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for
the History of Science) | Sarah de Rijcke (Leiden University) |
Francesca Rochberg (University of California at Berkeley) |
Alexander Ruser (University of Agder) | Anne Salmond (University
of Auckland) | Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University) | James
C. Scott (Yale University) | Elisabeth Simbürger (Universidad
de Valparaíso) | Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University) | Fred
Spier (University of Amsterdam) | Swen Steinberg (Queen’s
University) | Tereza Stöckelová (Czech Academy of Sciences) |
Jomo Sundaram (Khazanah Research Institute) | Liba
Taub (University of Cambridge) | Daniel Trambaiolo (University
of Hong Kong) | Corinna Unger (European University Institute) |
Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of
Science) | Stéphane Van Damme (European University Institute) |
Andrés Vélez Posada (Universidad EAFIT) | Aparecida
Vilaça (National Museum, Brazil) | Simon Werrett (University
College London) | Helen Yitah (University of Ghana) |
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Titles in the Series:
Imaginaries of Connectivity: The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance
Edited by Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Suvi Alt and Maarten Meijer
Mapping, Connectivity and the Making of European Empires
Edited by Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti and Filipe dos Reis

Mapping, Connectivity
and the Making
of European Empires
Edited by Luis Lobo-Guerrero,
Laura Lo Presti and Filipe dos Reis
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Series Editor’s Note xiii
Preface: Poseidonians and the Tragedy of Mapping
European Empires xv
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
1 Mapping and the Making of Imperial European Connectivity 1
Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti and Filipe dos Reis
2 Mapping the Invention of the Early ‘Spanish’ Empire 19
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
3 Freezing Cartographic Imaginaries: Mapping the Rediscovery
of Greenland and the Restoring of the Danish Monarchy 51
Jeppe Strandsbjerg
4 Surveying in British North America: A Homology of Property
and Territory 77
Kerry Goettlich
5 Empires of Science, Science of Empires: Mapping, Centres
of Calculation and the Making of Imperial Spaces
in Nineteenth-Century Germany 105
Filipe dos Reis
6 Representing France’s Syrian ‘Colony without a Flag’: Imperial
Cartographic Strategies at the Margin of the Peace Conference 139
Louis Le Douarin
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viii Contents
7 The Cartographic Lives of the Italian Fascist Empire 175
Laura Lo Presti
Index 201
About the Editors and Contributors 213
Figures
1.1 René Magritte, La Condition Humaine, 1933, c/o Pictoright
Amsterdam 2020. 4
2.1 Carta de Juan de la Cosa, 1500. Original at the Museo Naval
de Madrid. Courtesy of the Centro Virtual Cervantes, Museo
Naval de Madrid. 27
2.2 World Map by Diego Ribeiro, 1529 (The Second Borgian
Map). From a facsimile by W. Griggs, 1886. Original in the
Museum of Propaganda in Rome. 37
2.3 America’s Map by Diego Gutiérrez, Antwerp, 1562
(Americae Sive Qvatae Orbis Partis Nova et Exatissima
Descritptio). Courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography
and Map Division. 41
3.1 ‘The Kinge Christianus His Forde: Names of rodestes,
havens, and soundes within this ford’. With permission by
Hakluyt Society. 53
3.2 ‘The Coast of Groineland: With the lattitudes of the havens
and harbors as I fovnde them’. With permission by Hakluyt
Society. 54
3.3 Swart’s first map – the older one – adding Northern
Scandinavia and Greenland to the Ptolemaic Map. The
original from ca. 1424 is unknown but a copy from 1427
exists in a later edition. Bibliotheque municipale Nancy
Manuscrit 441. By courtesy of the Danish Royal Library. 63
3.4 Section of Mercator’s 1606 map of the Arctic. Image in
Public Domain. 64
4.1 A Map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the Three
Delaware Counties (Evans and Hebert, 1749) 78
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