Early American Cartographies.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Plurality of Early American Cartography -- PART I. CARTOGRAPHIC HORIZONS AND IMPERIAL POLITICS -- 1. DEEP ARCHIVES -- OR, THE EMPIRE HAS TOO MANY MAPS -- From Abstraction to Allegory: The Imperial Cartography of Vicente de Memije -- Centers and Peripheries in English Maps of America, 1590-1685 -- 2. THE (UN)MAKING OF COLONIES -- A Compass to Steer by: John Locke, Carolina, and the Politics of Restoration Geography -- Rebellious Maps: José Joaquim da Rocha and the Proto-Independence Movement in Colonial Brazil -- PART II. CARTOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE -- 3. NATIVE MAPS / MAPPING NATIVES -- The Wrong Side of the Map? The Cartographic Encounters of John Lederer -- An Image to Carry the World within It: Performance Cartography and the Skidi Star Chart -- Closing the Circle: Mapping a Native Account of Colonial Land Fraud -- 4. COSMOPOLITAN MAPS -- Competition over Land, Competition over Empire: Public Discourse and Printed Maps of the Kennebec River, 1753-1755 -- Building Urban Spaces for the Interior: Thomas Penn and the Colonization of Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania -- Mapping Havana in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1740-1762 -- PART III. META-CARTOGRAPHIES: ICONS, OBJECTS, AND METAPHORS -- National Cartography and Indigenous Space in Mexico -- The Spectacle of Maps in British America, 1750-1800 -- Hurricanes and Revolutions -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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