The spacious word
Subtitle: cartography, literature, and empire in early modern Spain
By: Ricardo Padrón
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Cartography -- Spain -- History -- To 1500; Cartography -- Spain -- History -- 16th century; Spain -- History -- 711-1516; Spain -- History -- House of Austria, 1516-1700
Description: "The Spacious Word explores the history of Iberian expansion into the Americas as seen through maps and cartographic literature and considers the relationship between early Spanish ideas of the world and the origins of European colonialism. Spanish mapmakers and writers, as Padron shows, clung to a much older idea of space that was based on the itineraries or travel narratives and medieval navigational techniques."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index