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A biography of a map in motion : Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake
- Title
- A biography of a map in motion : Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake / Christian J. Koot.
- Author
- Koot, Christian J.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-3561 | Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 282 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- Reveals the little known history of one of history's most famous maps - and its maker Tucked away in a near-forgotten collection, Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited is one of the most extraordinary maps of colonial British America. Created by a colonial merchant, planter, and diplomat named Augustine Herrman, the map pictures the Mid-Atlantic in breathtaking detail, capturing its waterways, coastlines, and communities. Herrman spent three decades travelling between Dutch New Amsterdam and the English Chesapeake before eventually settling in Maryland and making this map. Although the map has been reproduced widely, the history of how it became one of the most famous images of the Chesapeake has never been told. A Biography of a Map in Motion uncovers the intertwined stories of the map and its maker, offering new insights into the creation of empire in North America. The book follows the map from the waterways of the Chesapeake to the workshops of London, where it was turned into a print and sold. Transported into coffee houses, private rooms, and government offices, Virginia and Maryland became an apparatus of empire that allowed English elites to imaginatively possess and accurately manage their Atlantic colonies. Investigating this map offers the rare opportunity to recapture the complementary and occasionally conflicting forces that created the British Empire.
- Alternative Title
- Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake
- Subject
- Herrman, Augustine, 1621 or 1622-1686
- 1600-1775
- Cartographers > Maryland > Biography
- Cartography > Maryland > History
- Cartographers
- Cartography
- Maryland > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Maps > Early works to 1800
- Maryland > Maps > Early works to 1800
- Virginia > Maps > Early works to 1800
- Maryland
- United States > Chesapeake Bay Region
- Virginia
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Early works.
- History.
- Maps.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-3561
- ISBN
- 9781479837298
- 1479837296
- LCCN
- 2017008112
- 40027881016
- OCLC
- 1008910067
- Author
- Koot, Christian J., author.
- Title
- A biography of a map in motion : Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake / Christian J. Koot.
- Publisher
- New York : New York University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1775
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027881016
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-3561