Mapping Nature across the Americas
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Table of Contents
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: 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
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
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