The spacious word : cartography, literature, and empire in early modern Spain / Ricardo Padrón.

Author
Padrón, Ricardo, 1967- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Description
xv, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-279) and index.
    Contents
    • Invention of America and the invention of the map
    • Tracking space
    • Mapping New Spain
    • Charting an Insular Empire
    • Between Schylla and Charybdis.
    ISBN
    • 0226644332 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780226644332 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2003015707
    OCLC
    52721026
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