Cartographic expeditions and visual culture in the nineteenth-century Americas /
"During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vas...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the history of the Americas
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Add Tag | Summary: | "During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual culture across the Americas, arguing that acts of measurement are also aesthetic acts. Such visual interventions intersect with new technologies, with sociopolitical power and conflict, and with shifting public tastes and consumption practices. Several key questions shape this examination: What kinds of nineteenth-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? What are the commonalities and distinctions in mapping strategies between North and South America? How does the constitution of these lines reorder space and the natural landscape itself? The volume represents the first transnational and hemispheric analysis of nineteenth-century cartographic aesthetics, and features the multi-disciplinary perspective of historians, geographers, and art historians"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) : color illustrations, color maps. |
| ISBN: | 9781000228823 1000228827 9780429319211 0429319215 9781000228793 1000228797 9781000228809 1000228800 |
Cartographic expeditions and visual culture in the nineteenth-century Americas /