The Mapping of New Spain

Author: Barbara E. Mundy
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0226550966

The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas

To learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. Download The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In The Mapping of New Spain, Barbara Mundy illuminates both the Amerindian (Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec) and the Spanish traditions represented in these maps and traces the reshaping of indigene world views in the wake of colonization.

"Its contribution to its specific field is both significant and original. . . . It is a pure pleasure to read." -Sabine MacCormack, Isis

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"Mundy has done a fine job of balancing the artistic interpretation of the maps with the larger historical context within which they

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