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Mapping nature across the Americas

Title
Mapping nature across the Americas / edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan, James R. Akerman.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021.

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Additional Authors
  • Brosnan, Kathleen A., 1960-
  • Akerman, James R.
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Description
1 online resource.
Subject
  • Cartography > America > History
  • Physical geography > America > Maps > History
  • America > Maps > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
People's nature. 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 ; Into the interior: reading the native landscape of the Great Lakes in European maps, 1612-1755 / Kelly Hopkins ; Currents of influence: indigenous river names in the American South / Craig E. Colten ; Oysters and emancipation: the Antebellum shellfish industry as a pathway to freedom / Michelle Zacks -- Reinventors' nature. Transcending the Alps in the Andes: Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer, and the graphic invention of the mountain range / Ernesto Capello ; On the trail with Humboldt: mapping the Orinoco as transnational space / Adriana Méndez Rodenas ; Palms and other trees on maps: exoticism, error, and environment, from old world to new / Brian Bockelman ; Beyond the map: landscape, history, and the routes of Cortés / Raymond B. Craib -- The state's nature. Nature knows no bounds: mapping challenges at the US-Mexico border / Mary E. Mendoza ; Visualizing the Enlarged Homestead Act: mapping power and place in early twentieth-century US land policy / Sara M. Gregg ; Mapping Canadian nature and the nature of Canadian mapping / Matt Dyce and Graeme Wynn ; 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.
ISBN
  • 9780226696577 (electronic bk.)
  • 022669657X (electronic bk.)
OCLC
ebd1191998472
Title
Mapping nature across the Americas / edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan, James R. Akerman.
Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on print version record.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Added Author
Brosnan, Kathleen A., 1960- editor.
Akerman, James R., editor.
EBSCOhost
Other Form:
ebook version : 9780226696577
Original 9780226696430 022669643X (DLC) 2020056574
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