Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793
Publisher: Yale University Press; Yale University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Place of publication: S. l
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Description: "Focussing on cities and towns in south America, including Mexico City, Lima and Potosi this book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture. It investigates the different ways in which artists, map-makers, surveyors and military engineers represented a city in all its complexity and the different meanings that were invested in their depiction of New and Old World cities and towns."--BOOK JACKET.