Mapping Latin America A Cartographic Reader

Name: Mapping Latin America A Cartographic Reader
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ISBN: 9780226618227

ISBN-10: 0226618226

ISBN-13: 9780226618227

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jordana Dym, Karl Offen

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For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of somethinga country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn't, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these sorts of questions about maps of Latin America, and in doing so illuminate the ways cartography has helped to shape this region from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. In Mapping Latin America,Jordana Dym and Karl Offen bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine and interpret more than five centuries of Latin American maps.Individual chapters…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 2.838

Jordana Dym is associate professor of history and director of Latin American studies at Skidmore College and the author of From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759–1838.

Karl Offen is associate professor of geography at the University of Oklahoma.