Mapping nature across the Americas. (2021)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Mapping nature across the Americas. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Mapping nature across the Americas
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan, James R. Akerman.
- Editors:
- Brosnan, Kathleen A, 1960-
Akerman, James R - Contents:
- List of Illustrations Introduction Kathleen A. Brosnan and James R. Akerman Part One: People's Nature Chapter 1. Staking Claims on Native Lands: The Symbolic Power of Indigenous Cartographic Conventions in the Ayer Map of Teotihuacan Mexico (1560) and Its Copies Jennifer Saracino Chapter 2. Into the Interior: Reading the Native Landscape of the Great Lakes in European Maps, 1612–1755 Kelly Hopkins Chapter 3. Currents of Influence: Indigenous River Names in the American South Craig E. Colten Chapter 4. Oysters and Emancipation: The Antebellum Shellfish Industry as a Pathway to Freedom Michelle Zacks Part Two: Reinventors' Nature Chapter 5. Transcending the Alps in the Andes: Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer, and the Graphic Invention of the Mountain Range Ernesto Capello Chapter 6. On the Trail with Humboldt: Mapping the Orinoco as Transnational Space Adriana Méndez Rodenas Chapter 7. Palms and Other Trees on Maps: Exoticism, Error, and Environment, from Old World to New Brian Bockelman Chapter 8. Beyond the Map: Landscape, History, and the Routes of Cortés Raymond B. Craib Part Three: The State's Nature Chapter 9. Nature Knows No Bounds: Mapping Challenges at the US-Mexico Border Mary E. Mendoza Chapter 10. Visualizing the Enlarged Homestead Act: Mapping Power and Place in Early Twentieth-Century US Land Policy Sara M. Gregg Chapter 11. Mapping Canadian Nature and the Nature of Canadian Mapping Matt Dyce and Graeme Wynn Chapter 12. Seeing Forests as Systems:List of Illustrations Introduction Kathleen A. Brosnan and James R. Akerman Part One: People's Nature Chapter 1. Staking Claims on Native Lands: The Symbolic Power of Indigenous Cartographic Conventions in the Ayer Map of Teotihuacan Mexico (1560) and Its Copies Jennifer Saracino Chapter 2. Into the Interior: Reading the Native Landscape of the Great Lakes in European Maps, 1612–1755 Kelly Hopkins Chapter 3. Currents of Influence: Indigenous River Names in the American South Craig E. Colten Chapter 4. Oysters and Emancipation: The Antebellum Shellfish Industry as a Pathway to Freedom Michelle Zacks Part Two: Reinventors' Nature Chapter 5. Transcending the Alps in the Andes: Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer, and the Graphic Invention of the Mountain Range Ernesto Capello Chapter 6. On the Trail with Humboldt: Mapping the Orinoco as Transnational Space Adriana Méndez Rodenas Chapter 7. Palms and Other Trees on Maps: Exoticism, Error, and Environment, from Old World to New Brian Bockelman Chapter 8. Beyond the Map: Landscape, History, and the Routes of Cortés Raymond B. Craib Part Three: The State's Nature Chapter 9. Nature Knows No Bounds: Mapping Challenges at the US-Mexico Border Mary E. Mendoza Chapter 10. Visualizing the Enlarged Homestead Act: Mapping Power and Place in Early Twentieth-Century US Land Policy Sara M. Gregg Chapter 11. Mapping Canadian Nature and the Nature of Canadian Mapping Matt Dyce and Graeme Wynn Chapter 12. Seeing Forests as Systems: Maps of North American Forest Conditions and the Emergence of Visual-Ecological Thinking Peter Nekola Epilogue. The View from across the Pond Catherine T. Dunlop Acknowledgments Appendix: Critical Map Reading for the Environment List of Contributors Notes Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
- Subjects:
- 526.097
Cartography -- America -- History
Physical geography -- America -- Maps -- History
America -- Maps -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780226696577
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780226696430
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