[MapHist] recent book
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Last fall I received a copy of Martin Bruckner, ed. Early American Cartographies. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2011. The publication of the book was duly noted on the Map History list. At about the same time, however, another book was also published by the same press for the same sponsor, which I did not see mentioned. Paul W. Mapp's The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire, 1713-1763, 455 pp.39 maps, and 4 plates should be of interest to historians of cartography, especially those concerned with North America. Part of the dust jacket reads: A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus of the Atlantic world, Paul Mapp demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions to early American history. Mapp deals with the Spanish, French, British and Amerindians ideas about the west, especially the transMississippi west. The volume is well documented (footnotes at the bottom of the page, as with the Bruckner volume) with research in the various archives. Rand Burnette, Professor Emeritus of History, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL 62650 burne...@mchsi.com January 8, 2012___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
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This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Fred Shauger, The most complete study of watermarks is David Woodward's Catalogue of Watermarks in Italian Printed Maps, ca. 1540-1600. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Whether he covers B H I don't know, but he has an introduction that deals with the previous literature as well as a three page bibliography (17-19) References to Introduction and Catalogue. I hope this helps. I have three small volumes of B H as well as the six volumes in three with an intro by R.A. Skelton published by World Publishing of Cleveland and New York in 1966. Skimming those introductions I couldn't find anything specific on watermarks. My best in your search, Rand Burnette On Apr 22, 2010, at 5:14 AM, ean...@aol.com wrote: This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Can anyone direct me to any study of the watermarks that appear on the maps of Braun and Hogenberg? Fred Shauger ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
