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Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader

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. Download Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 range of disciplines to examine and interpret more than five centuries of Latin American maps. Individual chapters take on maps of every si Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.