Encounters in the New World : Jesuit Cartography of the Americas

Encounters in the New World : Jesuit Cartography of the Americas

Analyzing more than 150 historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits' significant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World. In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, also...

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Main Author: Altic, Mirela (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022
Chicago : [2022]
Subjects:
Jesuits > America > History
Cartography > America > History
HISTORY / General
America > Discovery and exploration > Maps
America > Maps > Early works to 1800
South America, North America, Jesuit cartography, native nations, geographical knowledge, early modern encounter, missionary, imperial politics
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