Book ID: CBB000410995

Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps (2004)

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Lemmon, Alfred Emmette (Editor)
Magill, John T. (Editor)
Wiese, Jason R. (Editor)
Hébert, John R. (Editor)


The Historic New Orleans Collection
Publication date: 2004
Language: English


Publication Date: 2004
Edition Details: Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial [First] Edition. With preface by the editors
Physical Details: xxii + 383 pp.; maps; ill.; bibl.; index

Description This collection of documents traces the discovery, colonization, and development of the Louisiana Purchase from its first charting in the sixteenth century. Contents:


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Review Stephenson, Richard W. (2005) Review of "Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography. unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Christovich, Mary Louise (2004) Foreword. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps. unapi

Chapter Lawrence, Priscilla (2004) Acknowledgments. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps. unapi

Chapter Hébert, John R. (2004) Introduction. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Snyder, Charles A. (2004) Dedication to the memory of Maurice M. Bayon. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps. unapi

Chapter Hoffman, Paul E. (2004) Discovery and Early Cartography of the Northern Gulf Coast. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps (p. 7). unapi

Chapter Lemmon, Alfred E. (2004) La Louisiane/ La Luisana: A Bourbon Colony. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps (p. 41). unapi

Chapter Ehrenberg, Ralph E. (2004) “Forming a General Geographical Idea of a Country”: Mapping Louisiana from 1803-1820. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps (p. 123). unapi

Chapter Fernandez, Mark F. (2004) Mapping Louisiana in the Nineteenth Century. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps (p. 163). unapi

Chapter Wiese, Jason R. (2004) Torrents of Change: Louisiana in the Modern Age. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps (p. 245). unapi

Chapter Magill, John T. (2004) New Orleans through Three Centuries. In: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps (p. 293). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Azara, Francesca
Bleichmar, Daniela
Derrick, Sharon McCormick
Flint, Richart W.
Hornsby, Stephen
Inglis, Robin
Journals
Journal of Historical Geography
Terrae Incognitae
Canadian Historical Review
Cartographica Helvetica
Cuadernos Dieciochistas: revista consagrada al estudio de la historia, el pensamiento, la literatura, el arte y la ciencia del siglo XVIII
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Publishers
Texas A&M University
McGill-Queen's University Press
Oxford University Press
Scarecrow Press
University of New Mexico Press
Yale University Press
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Cartography
Scientific expeditions
France, colonies
Maps; atlases
Spain, colonies
People
Mutis, José Celestino
Clark, William
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de
Custer, George Armstrong
De Foucauld, Charles
Des Barres, Joseph F. W.
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
North America
United States
Louisiana (U.S.)
Spain
Colombia
Africa
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
United States. Geological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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