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Cartography
London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689
Batchelor Robert K.
ISBN: HB: 9780226080659, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trade...
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Africa
Mastering the Niger James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery
Lambert David
ISBN: HB: 9780226078069, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
In "Mastering the Niger", David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of "A New Map of Africa" in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery – as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political strugg...
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America
Mapping the Nation History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
Schulten Susan
ISBN: PB: 9780226103969, ISBN: HB: 9780226740683, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 47 halftones
In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators m...
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Astronomy
Secret Science Spanish Cosmography and the New World
Portuondo Maria M.
ISBN: PB: 9780226055404, ISBN: HB: 9780226675343, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 tables, 10 colour plates, 14 halftones, 5 line illus.
The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes i...
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