Mapping Latin America : a cartographic reader

360 Pages·2011·11.679 MB·English

by  Dym, Jordana, Offen, Karl

Mapping Latin America
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Mapping Latin America
A Cartographic Reader
Edited by Jordana Dym
and Karl Offen
✵
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
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Jordana Dym is associate professor of history and director of Latin
American studies at Skidmore College and the author of From Sovereign
Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America,
1759–1838. Karl Off en is associate professor of geography at the
University of Oklahoma.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
©(cid:6)2011 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 2011
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Mapping Latin America : a cartographic reader / edited by Jordana Dym
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(cid:13)isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 61821- 0 (cloth : alk. paper)
(cid:13)isbn- 10: 0- 226- 61821- 8 (cloth : alk. paper)
(cid:13)isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 61822- 7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
(cid:13)isbn- 10: 0- 226- 61822- 6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Cartography—Latin
America—History. I. Dym, Jordana, 1967–  II. Off en, Karl.
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of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—
Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1 992.
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For Henry W. Offen (1937–2010), Karl’s guiding spirit
and
Rita T. Gelb, Jordana’s mother and friend
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Contents
Foreword | Matthew H. Edney xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction | Karl Offen and Jordana Dym 1
I. The Colonial Period: Explorations and Empires 19
Imagining a New World
1 Palace Arts | Francisco Estrada- Belli 25
and Heather Hurst
Mural painting from a Maya palace, La Sufricaya,
Guatemala, ca. AD 379
2 America | John Hébert 29
Martin Waldseemüller, Universalis cosmographia, 1507
3 Charting Shores | Ricardo Padrón 33
Diogo Ribeiro, Carta Universal, 1529
4 Fabled Land | D. Graham Burnett 38
Walter Ralegh, map of Guiana (El Dorado), ca. 1596
Urban Society
5 Indigenous Civilization | Barbara E. Mundy 42
Map of Tenochtitlán (Mexico), 1524
6 Projecting Order | Richard L. Kagan 46
Plano fundacional de San Juan de la Frontera (Argentina), 1562
Plaza Mayor de Lima (Peru), 1680
7 Hybrid Space | Barbara E. Mundy 51
Map from the Relación Geográfi ca of Cholula (Mexico),
1581
Environment and Society
8 Litigating Land | Barbara E. Mundy 56
Oztoticpac Lands Map, Texcoco (Mexico), ca. 1540
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9 Mining Mountains | Peter Bakewell 61
Illustration with map of a Potosí silver refi ning mill and
Cerro Rico, ca. 1590
Planta general de la Villa Ymperial de Potosí (Bolivia), ca. 1590
10 Between Two Seas | W. George Lovell and 65
Christopher H. Lutz
Antonio Herrera, Descripción del Avdiencia de Gvatimala, 1601
Juan López de Velasco, Descripción de la Audiencia de
Guatemala, 1575
11 Bourbons and Water | Vera S. Candiani 70
Joaquín Velázquez de León and Joseph de Burgaleta, Perfi l y
corte por la latitud de las compuertas y puntos principales del
canal de Huehuetoca (Mexico), 1774
Ignacio Castera, Plano general de toda la extensión del Desagüe
(Mexico), 1795
Counter Visions
12 Andean Empire | Rolena Adorno 74
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, map of Huamanga (Peru),
1590s
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Mapa mundi de[l] Reino de las
In[di]as, 1615
13 Imperial Rivalries | Matthew Restall 79
Herman Moll, A Map of the West-I ndies . . . explaining what
belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland, etc., 1715
14 Allegory and Empire | Ricardo Padrón 84
Vicente de Memije, Aspecto Simbólico del Mundo
Hispánico, 1761
Vicente de Memije, Aspecto Geográphico del Mundo
Hispánico, 1761
Control and Defense
15 Edge of Empire | Karl Offen 88
[Sabastián de Aranciuia y Sasi], Mapa de lo principal de la
Provincia de Nicaragua, 1716
Franciso Antonio Fuentes y Guzmán, Audiencia de Guatemala,
ca. 1690
16 Mapping New Spain Borderlands | 93
Dennis Reinhartz
Agustín López de la Cámara Alta, Mapa General . . .
de la nueba colonia de Santander (Mexico), 1758
Francisco José de Haro, . . . todas las billas y lugares de
españoles haci como las Missiones de indios y presidios existentes
en la Provincia Nuevo Santander (Mexico), ca. 1770
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17 Forts and Ports | Joseph L. Scarpaci 98
Antonio M. de la Torre y Cárdenas, Plano de la Plaza de la
Havana (Cuba), 1817
Agustín Crame, Plano de la Plaza de Panamá, 1779
18 Estate Maps | David Buisseret 103
[Robert Baugh Junior], Plan of Papine Estate (Jamaica), 1834
Plan de la première, seconde et troisième habitations de
M. de Laborde (Haiti), ca. 1790
Bourbon Space
19 Myths and Measurements | Neil Safi er 107
Charles- Marie de la Condamine, Carte du cours du Maragnon
(Amazon basin), ca. 1745
20 Creole Landscapes | Magali M. Carrera 110
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Nuevo mapa geográfi co de la
América septentrional española (Mexico), 1767
Luis de Mena, casta panel (Mexico), ca. 1750
21 Cartographic Independence | 114
Junia Ferreira Furtado
José Joaquim da Rocha, Mapa da Capitania da Minas Gerais
(Brazil), 1778
José Joaquim da Rocha, Mapa da Comarca da Sabara
(Brazil), 1778
II. The Nineteenth Century: Enlightenment,
Independence, and the Nation- State 121
Exploration and Cartography
22 Mapping Mountains | Karl S. Zimmerer 125
Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, Géographie des
plantes équinoxiales (the Chimborazo Map) (Ecuador), 1807
Pedro Cieza de León, Brevis exactaq[ue] totivs novi orbis
(South America), 1560
23 Traversing Space | D. Graham Burnett 131
John Arrowsmith, Map of Guayana to Illustrate the route of
R. H. Schomburgk, 1840
24 Cutting Across | Peter H. Dana 135
Lionel Gisborne, Atlantic and Pacifi c Junction: Topographical
Map of a portion of the Isthmus of Darien In Site Of Proposed
Inter- Oceanic Navigation (Panama), 1852
25 Minerals and War | Karl Offen 139
Josiah Harding, Map of Part of the Desert of Atacama
(Bolivia), 1877
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