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Hispanic American Historical Review (1938) 18 (2): 198–200.
Published: 01 May 1938
...A. Curtis Wilgus The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800 . By Wagner Henry R. . ( Berkeley : University of California Press . 2 vols. 1937 . Pp. xiv , 270 and vi , 271 - 543 . Maps, $20.00 .) Copyright 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 353–354.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Felipe Fernández-Armesto The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain . By Padrón Ricardo . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2004 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 287 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . © 2006 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 February 1999
...David J. Robinson The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas . By Mundy Barbara E. . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxiii , 281 pp. Cloth, $40.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 395–426.
Published: 01 August 2015
... to cartography. This article examines a set of maps made by a midlevel colonial official in 1797 amid efforts to open a road from Chulumani district in the Intendancy of La Paz to the Franciscan mission of Mosetenes. The article advances understandings of the material and imaginative interconnectedness...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 213–244.
Published: 01 May 2012
... overview of recent research in the history of cartography and presents two examples of map discussion modules for the Latin American history classroom: a demonstration of US neocolonialism, resource extraction, and social change in late nineteenth-century eastern Nicaragua, and a case of urban planning...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 343–345.
Published: 01 May 2011
... . 494 pp. Paper . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Over the last three decades the study of maps and the history of cartography have experienced a veritable renewal. Through works by J. B. Harley and others, maps are now routinely studied as cultural products created in particular...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 751–752.
Published: 01 November 1999
... Press 1999 In recent years the history of cartography has experienced dramatic changes. Formerly concerned with the descriptive qualities of maps and broader issues connected to the rise of scientific cartography, the field, thanks primarily to work of J. B. Harley and Christian Jacob, tends...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 586–588.
Published: 01 August 2000
... uses and ramifications of cartographic practices and products. However, the volume should prove a welcome addition to the spate of recent works on colonial cartography: the clear and engaging essays, extensive array of color and black-and-white prints, lengthy cartobibliography, and close attention...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 543–544.
Published: 01 August 2012
... de Fomento. His interests and schooling in geography, engineering, and engraving led him to an avocation in cartography. He produced many important maps, atlases, and geographical writings over his lifetime. Two major atlases in particular are presented in Traveling from New Spain to Mexico...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 544–545.
Published: 01 August 2010
... historians, by contrast, in the same period, tended to insist that science was their compatriots’ invention, at least in the fields of cartography and navigation, and that their nation contributed enormously to the scientific aspects of the Renaissance and to the scientific revolution. On both counts...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 May 1989
... singularly unaware of the work being done in the field of the history of cartography, and cites only four works in the field, including two by eminent scholars; but the citations are for matters of historical fact and not for cartographic history. Those working in the history of cartography usually come...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 386–388.
Published: 01 May 2003
.... Not that one expects a Mexican university press to be able to afford the glossy color prints of a book such as Barbara Mundy’s superb The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas (1996), but nowadays the Internet offers an alternative method of providing access...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (4): 716–717.
Published: 01 November 1971
... Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Newberry Library has announced that a Center for the History of Cartography will be established at the Library. Its purpose is to encourage the study of the history of maps and map-making, as well as to promote collecting, research...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 563–564.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Heidi V. Scott For this reviewer, Kessell notably misses the opportunity to engage gently with the now extensive critical literature on historical cartography. If he had done so, he may have succeeded in conveying rather more forcefully the undoubted significance of his study for wider scholarly...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 776–779.
Published: 01 November 1975
... Urdaneta’s calculation (1:235) was only 12′5″ (a mere 22.7 km) off the mark. Portuguese cartography of the early 1500s deliberately falsified the coast of Brazil south of Cabo Frio, showing it running due south instead of west-southwest (1:145). Portuguese maps show an eastward bias—that is, a tendency...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (3): 618.
Published: 01 August 1991
... on receiving for review a book with this title; will it perhaps be yet another attempt to prove that the Phoenicians crossed the Atlantic and established themselves in Central America? In the event, this is a sober and scholarly volume, edited by a working group in historical cartography based in Buenos Aires...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (3): 356.
Published: 01 August 1966
... The Newberry Library announces the inauguration of the Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures in Historical Cartography on October 27 and 28 and November 10 and 11, 1966. The lecturer will be R. A. Skelton, Superintendent of the Map Room of the British Museum. Mr. Skelton will survey the study...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (4): 633–655.
Published: 01 November 1985
... Missionswissenschaft (NZM) ( Beckenried, Switzerland ), 20 ( 1964 ). 18. Kino Writes to the Duchess. Letters and Reports of the Missionary Explorer to the Duchess of Aveiro in Spain (1680-1687) ( Rome , 1965 ). 19. Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain ( Tucson , 1965 ). 20...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 623–646.
Published: 01 November 1995
... on Nomenclature,” Journal of Pacific History 12:4 (1977), 205–11; Lawrence C. Wroth, “The Early Cartography of the Pacific,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 38:2 (1944), 83–268, esp. 121–27. 4 In contrast, J. C. Beaglehole speaks of “at last a settled highway over the Pacific, though...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (3): 402–404.
Published: 01 August 1964
... recognized no such thing, as the Magellan voyage and much later cartography prove. The sentence at the top of page 160 can only be taken as meaning that Magellan avoided touching Brazil, whereas he really spent some time there as Pigafetta attests. It would be better to say (p. 170) that human sacrifice had...
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