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Title

The mapping of the Entradas into the greater Southwest / edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon.

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Reinhartz, Dennis.
• Saxon, Gerald D.

Description

xiv, 227 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 27 cm

Summary

"In this volume edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, five leading scholars in history, geography, and cartography discuss the role Spanish explorers and mapmakers played in bringing knowledge of the New World to Europe. The entradas, of Panfilo de Narvaez and Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (1527-37), Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1539-42), and Hernando de Soto and Luis de Moscoso (1539-43), into the Greater Southwest of North America were crucial in the dissemination of information and images of the newly discovered lands."--BOOK JACKET. "The contributors investigate linkages between the early explorers' experiences, their influence on indigenous peoples, and perceptions of the region as reflected in printed maps of the period. This body of images, which incorporated Indian information, made a powerful impression on the still largely preliterate people of Europe, reshaping their world."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Geschichte 1527-1802
• Cartography > Spain > History
• Cartography
• Discoveries in geography > Spanish
• Kartografie
• Kongress
• Southwest, New > Discovery and exploration > Spanish
• New Southwest
• Spain
• USA > Südweststaaten
• Spanien

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Based on a symposium held at the University of Texas at Arlington on Febrary 20, 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index.

Contents

Renaissance geographic and cartographic background to the first century of Greater Southwest discovery and cartography / David Woodward -- Meso-American and Spanish cartography : an unusual example of syncretic development / David Buisseret -- Spanish entrada cartography / Harry Kelsey -- Coastal exploration and mapping : a concomitant of the entradas / Robert S. Weddle -- Legado : the information of the entradas portrayed through the early nineteenth century / Dennis Reinhartz -- Entrada : the first century of mapping the Greater Southwest, an exhibition / Katherine R. Goodwin.

ISBN

• 0806130474
• 9780806130477
• 080613047 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

98026958

OCLC

• ocm39299580
• 39299580
• SCSB-572030

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library