The Mapping of New Spain
Subtitle: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780226550978
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); Maps, charts & atlases; Technology; History - General History; History: World; Science/Mathematics; Mexico; Spain; Cartography; Latin America - Mexico; World - Colonial Studies; Technology / Cartography
First sentence: If one could trace the genesis of the sixty-nine Relaciones Geograficas maps, following the narrative threads of the story along the globe of the earth, the filaments coming out of towns and villages in New Spain would twine together, stretching across the Atlantic.