The Spacious World: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain by Padrón, Ricardo - 2004

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,… Read More

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