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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 287pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Mild rubbing and gentle bumps to covers and edges of brown cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Spacious Word explores the history of Iberian expansion into the Americas as seen through maps and cartographic literature, and considers the relationship between early Spanish ideas of the world and the origins of European colonialism. Spanish mapmakers and writers, as Padrón shows, clung to a much older idea of space that was based on the itineraries of travel narratives and medieval navigational techniques. Padrón contends too that maps and geographic writings heavily influenced the Spanish imperial imagination. During the early modern period, the idea of "America" was still something being invented in the minds of Europeans. Maps of the New World,…
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The Spacious Word Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Ricardo Padron
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In part 2 of Cervantes's Don Quixote, the world's most famous knight-errant and his trusty squire take an extraordinary journey on the back of a magical creature belonging to the enchanter Malambruno.
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- Title The Spacious Word Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain
- Author Ricardo Padron
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
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- Pages 280
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date February 1, 2004
- ISBN 9780226644332
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