Informationen zum Autor Christine Marie Petto is professor of early modern European history at Southern Connecticut State University. Klappentext This book is a comparative study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in early modern England and France with a particular focus on Paris and London. Zusammenfassung This book is a comparative study of the production and role of maps! charts! and atlases in early modern England and France with a particular focus on Paris and London. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Cartographic Imagery and Representations of Power2 Mapping the Land: County & Regional Mapping in England and France2 Chart Making in England and France & Charting the English Channel4 Paper Encroachments: Colonial Mapping Disputes in the Americas5 Charting the Seas of the East Indies: Commercial Opportunism vs. Royal Approbation

Klappentext

This book is a comparative study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in early modern England and France with a particular focus on Paris and London.

Inhalt

1 Cartographic Imagery and Representations of Power 2 Mapping the Land: County & Regional Mapping in England and France 2 Chart Making in England and France & Charting the English Channel 4 Paper Encroachments: Colonial Mapping Disputes in the Americas 5 Charting the Seas of the East Indies: Commercial Opportunism vs. Royal Approbation