Book ID: CBB194021105

A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake (2017)

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Koot, Christian J. (Author)


New York University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 304
Language: English

Reveals the little known history of one of history’s most famous maps – and its makerTucked away in a near-forgotten collection, Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited is one of the most extraordinary maps of colonial British America. Created by a colonial merchant, planter, and diplomat named Augustine Herrman, the map pictures the Mid-Atlantic in breathtaking detail, capturing its waterways, coastlines, and communities. Herrman spent three decades travelling between Dutch New Amsterdam and the English Chesapeake before eventually settling in Maryland and making this map. Although the map has been reproduced widely, the history of how it became one of the most famous images of the Chesapeake has never been told. A Biography of a Map in Motion uncovers the intertwined stories of the map and its maker, offering new insights into the creation of empire in North America. The book follows the map from the waterways of the Chesapeake to the workshops of London, where it was turned into a print and sold. Transported into coffee houses, private rooms, and government offices, Virginia and Maryland became an apparatus of empire that allowed English elites to imaginatively possess and accurately manage their Atlantic colonies. Investigating this map offers the rare opportunity to recapture the complementary and occasionally conflicting forces that created the British Empire. From the colonial and the metropolitan to the economic and the political to the local and the Atlantic, this is a fascinating exploration of the many meanings of a map, and how what some saw as establishing a sense of local place could translate to forging an empire.

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Review Edward C. Papenfuse (2019) Review of "A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 100-101). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
DeShong, Rachel
Mastoris, Stephanos
Nicholson, Andrew
Foliard, Daniel
Nasiri-Moghaddam, Nader
Opll, Ferdinand
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Science and society
Great Britain, colonies
Geography
Imperialism
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
16th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Renaissance
Places
Great Britain
Atlantic Ocean
Virginia (U.S.)
United States
North America
Atlantic world
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