{"product_id":"early-american-cartographies-published-by-the-omohundro-institute-of-early-american-history-and-culture-and-the-university-of-north-carolina-press-9780807834695","title":"Early American Cartographies (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly American Cartographies (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Martin Brückner. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780807834695.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous and European peoples creation and use of maps to better represent and understand the world they inhabited.\n\nDrawing from both current historical interpretations and new interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection provides diverse approaches to understanding the multilayered exchanges that went into creating cartographic knowledge in and about the Americas. In the introduction, editor Martin Brückner provides a critical assessment of the concept of cartography and of the historiography of maps. The individual essays, then, range widely over space and place, from the imperial reach of Iberian and British cartography to indigenous conceptualizations, including “dirty,” ephemeral maps and star charts, to demonstrate that pre-nineteenth-century American cartography was at once a multiform and multicultural affair.\n\nThis volume not only highlights the collaborative genesis of cartographic knowledge about the early Americas; the essays also bring to light original archives and innovative methodologies for investigating spatial relations among peoples in the western hemisphere. Taken together, the authors reveal the roles of early American cartographies in shaping popular notions of national space, informing visual perception, animating literary imagination, and structuring the political history of Anglo- and Ibero-America.\n\nThe contributors are:\nMartin Brückner, University of Delaware\nMichael J. Drexler, Bucknell University\nMatthew H. Edney, University of Southern Maine\nJess Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University\nJúnia Ferreira Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil\nWilliam Gustav Gartner, University of Wisconsin–Madison\nGavin Hollis, Hunter College of the City University of New York\nScott Lehman, independent scholar\nKen MacMillan, University of Calgary\nBarbara E. Mundy, Fordham University\nAndrew Newman, Stony Brook University\nRicardo Padrón, University of Virginia\nJudith Ridner, Mississippi State University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789399416885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807834696","price":53.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807834695_a16e8c20-cd7b-4f4b-8683-d61e8788b97c_fc8db47d-f65d-4bcd-960c-09633ec409be_9d39ea24-dba3-4333-9c80-5786c094c169.jpg?v=1790286532","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/early-american-cartographies-published-by-the-omohundro-institute-of-early-american-history-and-culture-and-the-university-of-north-carolina-press-9780807834695","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}