For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something a 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...
For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something a country, a city, or a natural resource. B...
The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionaries arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so firmly established there that eastern Nicaragua to this day remains one of the world s strongest Moravian enclaves. The Awakening Coast offers the first comprehensive English-language selection of the writings of the multinational missionaries who established the Moravian faith among the indigenous and Afro-descendant populations...
The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation...
