The Southeast in Early Maps (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
The 24 color and 71 black-and-white maps of the American Southeast comprising this volume span the entire Spanish and English colonial periods, 1507-1775. An extensive introductory essay, an annotated checklist of manuscript and printed maps, a lengthy essay on the role of Native Americans in the mapping of the Southeast, and a useful bibliography accompany the maps. First published in 1958 by the late Cumming, an authority on American cartography, this third revision is elegantly designed, clearly printed, and beautifully bound. Although often rife with errors, the maps help explain explorers' and settlers' movements, the changing locations of Indian peoples, and the conflict among Spain, France, and England for North America. Historians as well as cartographers will value this book. For specialists and research libraries.ABennett D. Hill, Georgetown Univ., Doylestown, PACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.