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  4. Cartography/History of Cartography
  5. South America

Cartography/History of Cartography

This research guide will help you find books, print journals and other resources about Cartography. Cartography studies the history of maps and mapmaking and interpretation of maps.
  • Introduction
  • Understanding maps
  • Finding books
  • Finding journals & magazines
  • More cartographic resources
  • History of cartography
    • United States
    • South America
  • Projections
  • Geovisualization
  • Art & cartography
  • History through maps
  • Societies, etc.
  • Digital mapping
  • Animated maps
  • Map humor
  • Web mapping This link opens in a new window
  • Google Earth & Maps
  • Map Mashups
  • Citing cartographic information
  • Geographic Information Systems This link opens in a new window
  • Maps & Atlases This link opens in a new window
  • Scholarly communication This link opens in a new window

Call number ranges

If you want to physically browse the shelves, here are some of the call number ranges for the cartography of South America. Most of these books are located on Berry Level 4. The maps are in the Evans Map Room.

Call number range What's there
G 1700 - 1779 Atlases of South America
   
G 5200 - G 5667 Maps of South America
    
GA  - Cartographers
GA Globemakers
GA  - History of cartography
    GA History of cartography
    GA  

Keeping up with Cartography/GIS journal literature

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Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's also available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

Introduction

This page highlights resources for the cartography of South America and for countries on that continent.

In the Library's collections

Below are useful subject headings for searching the online catalog for items on the cartography of South America.

  • cartography south america
  • cartography south america history
  • south america historical geography
  • indian cartography south america
  • cartographers south america
  • cartography america

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artThe history of cartography by J.B. Harley and David Woodward, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 201 .H53 1987
    A multi-volume set covering the history of Cartography by region and time.
  • Cover artThe history of cartography by Harley, J. B.; Woodward, David; Lewis, G. Malcolm, eds.
    • Open Access Icon
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780226316352
    On this site the University of Chicago Press is pleased to present the first three volumes of the History of Cartography in PDF format. Navigate to the PDFs from the left column. Each chapter of each book is a single PDF. The search box on the left allows searching across the content of all the PDFs that make up the first six books. ...
  • Cover ArtHistory of cartography: cartography in the traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific societies by David Woodward; G. Malcolm Lewis, eds.
    • Open Access Icon
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780226907284
    Publication Date: Vol. 2, Book 3
    Although they are often rendered in forms unfamiliar to Western eyes, maps have existed in most cultures. In this latest book of the acclaimed History of Cartography, contributors from a broad variety of disciplines collaborate to describe and address the significance of traditional cartographies. ...
  • Cover ArtWhere caciques and mapmakers met : border making in eighteenth-century South America by Jeffrey Alan Erbig
    • Book
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781469655031
    During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant to Indigenous peoples whose lands the border crossed. ...

Selected book titles

  • Cover ArtA cartografia impressa do Brasil, 1506-1922: os 100 mapas mais influentes by Guedes, Max Justo
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 671 .G84 2012
    ISBN: 9788589063425
    Pela primeira vez no Brasil, um grande estudioso propos-se a selecionar os cem mapas mais influentes para a cartografia brasileira. O almirante Max Justo Guedes, falecido em 2011, integrou por varias decadas o reduzido time dos maiores conhecedores de nossa cartografia e estava plenamente capacitado para o importante desafio de selecionar os mais importantes entre os milhares de mapas dedicados ao Brasil.
  • Cover ArtCartographica extraordinaire: the historical map transformed by David Rumsey; Edith M. Punt
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Oversize GA 197 .R86 R86 2004
    ISBN: 9781589480445
    Assembling some of the finest cartographic examples from private collection of renowned map collector David Rumsey, this atlas bridges the gap between historical cartography and exploration and the new technologies and applications of geographic information systems (GIS). More than a lavish collection of cartographic masterworks, this book tells two paralled stories. The first story lays out the relevant history, the human players, and the events that place each map in the context of the time in which it was created. The second thread, of particular interest to cartographers, designers, map lovers, and geographers, tells the stories of the maps themselves--how they were created and the lessons they can teach modern cartographers and other designers of information and visual communication.
  • Cover ArtHistories and historicities in Amazonia by Neil L. Whitehead, ed.
    • Book
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780803248052
    Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of the role the past plays in the construction of culture and identity. Not only can the past be represented and codified overtly in various ways and media as a history, it also operates more fundamentally and pervasively in cultures as a mode of consciousness or way of thinking about the world, a historicity. ...
  • Cover ArtLines of geography in Latin American narrative: national territory, national literature by Aarti Smith Madan
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 56 .G48 M33 2017
    ISBN: 9783319551395
    This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. ...
  • Cover ArtMeasuring the new world: Enlightenment science and South America by Neil Safier
    • Book
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780226733555
    Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a "sacred fire" passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America. By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. ...
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