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Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader

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For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to decide the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal a lot more: to in point of fact read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn’t, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these sorts of questions about maps of Latin The usa, and in doing so illuminate the ways cartography has helped to shape this region from the Rio Grande to Patagonia.


In Mapping Latin America,Jordana Dym and Karl Offen bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine and interpret more than five centuries of Latin American maps.Individual chapters take on maps of each and every size and scale and from all kinds of mapmakers—from the hand-drawn maps of Native Americans, to those by famed explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt, to those produced in today’s newspapers and magazines for the general public. The maps collected here, and the interpretations that accompany them, provide an excellent source to help readers better take note how Latin American countries, regions, provinces, and municipalities came to be defined, measured, organized, occupied, settled, disputed, and understood—that may be, how they came to have specific meanings to specific people at specific moments in time.


The first book to care for the broad sweep of mapping activities across Latin The usa, this lavishly illustrated volume will be required reading for students and scholars of geography and Latin American history, and anyone interested in understanding the significance of maps in human cultures and societies.

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