Mapping Latin America. A Cartographic Reader (Edited by Jordana Dym and Karl Offen)
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.
Mapping Latin America
A Cartographic Reader
Edited By Jordana Dym and Karl Offen
The University of Chicago Press
June 2011
Table of contents
Foreword Matthew H. Edney
Acknowledgments
Introduction Karl Offen and Jordana Dym
I. The Colonial Period: Explorations and Empires
Imagining a New World
1. Early Empires Francisco Estrada-Belli and Heather Hurst
Mural, north wall of Room 1 at La Sufricaya, Guatemala, ca. AD 379
2. America John Hébert
Martin Waldseemüller, Universalis cosmographia, 1507
3. Charting Shores Ricardo Padrón
Diogo Ribeiro, CartaUniversal, 1529
4. Fabled Land D. Graham Burnett
Walter Ralegh, map of Guiana (El Dorado), ca. 1596
Urban Society
5. Indigenous Civilization Barbara E. Mundy
Map of Tenochtitlán (Mexico), 1524
6. Projecting Order Richard L. Kagan
Plano fundacional de San Juan de la Frontera (Argentina), 1571
Plaza Mayor de Lima, 1680
7. Hybrid Space Barbara E. Mundy
Map from the Relación Geográfica of Cholula (Mexico), 1579–1581
Environment and Society
8. Litigating Land Barbara E. Mundy
Oztoticpac Lands Map, Texcoco (Mexico), ca. 1540
9. Mining Mountains Peter Bakewell
Illustration with map of a Potosí silver refining 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 Christopher H. Lutz
Antonio Herrera, Descripción del Avdiencia de Gvatimala, 1604
Juan López de Velasco, Descripción de la Audiencia de Guatemala, 1575
11. Bourbons and Water Vera S. Candiani
Joaquín Velázquez de León and Joseph de Burgaleta, Perfil 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
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
Herman Moll, A Map of the West-Indies . . . explaining what belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland, etc., 1715
14. Allegory and Empire Ricardo Padrón
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
[Sabastián de Aranciuia y Sasi], Mapa de lo principal de la Prouincia de Nicaragua, 1716
Franciso Antonio Fuentes y Guzmán, Audiencia de Guatemala, ca. 1690
16. Mapping New Spain Borderlands Dennis Reinhartz
Agustín López de la Cámara Alta et al., Mapa General . . . de la nueba colonia 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
17. Forts and Ports Joseph L. Scarpaci
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
[Robert Baugh], Plan of Papine Estate (Jamaica), 1834,
Plan de la première, seconde et troisième habitations de M. de Laborde (Haiti), ca. 1790
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