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Cartography: Spanish America

Russo, Alessandra

Modern maps and mapping transformed the image of the world in close simultaneity with the expansion projects of the Spanish and Portuguese Crowns throughout the planet. From the beginning of the sixteenth century, Iberian cartography became an extra-peninsular practice that allowed both the makers and the viewers to "see" territories, spaces, and lands in new geographic, political, and aesthetic terms.

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Title
Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of a Transatlantic Culture
Publisher
University of Texas Press

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Academic Units
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
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November 18, 2024

Notes

In Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of a Transatlantic Culture, edited by Kenneth Mills and Evonne Levy, 28–32. Austin: Texas University Press, 2013.