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Author | : Rosenberg Library |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
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The Texas coast remained for a long time one of the least-known stretches of the American Atlantic littoral, and Galveston Bay, the coast's most prominent feature, was not even shown by commercial mapmakers until 1799. The extensive cartographic collection of the Rosenberg Library in Galveston documents the development of cartography for this region. The Rosenberg holds maps that show Galveston Bay from 1725 on, as well as the rest of Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and adjacent coasts. Its maps illustrate European exploration of the New World during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the development of Texas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This detailed guide to the important cartographic collection at the Rosenberg is selective, with entries describing and relating the history of more than 550 of the most significant and useful maps in the library's holdings. Included are many original maps as well as photostats of rare or otherwise inaccessible maps. The descriptions focus on developments in Galveston and along the Texas coast but include other relevant topics as well. A generous scholarly introduction by Henry G. Taliaferro III traces the early cartography of the Texas coast, evaluating the importance of various documents and placing them in historical perspective.
Author | : Dennis Reinhartz |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806130477 |
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In this groundbreaking and lavishly illustrated volume edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, five leading scholars in history, geography, and cartography discuss the role Spanish explorers and mapmakers played in bringing knowledge of the New World to Europe. The entradas, of Pánfilo de Narváez and Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca (1527-37), Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1539-42), and Hernando de Soto and Luis de Moscoso (1539-43), into the Greater Southwest of North America were crucial in the dissemination of information and images of the newly discovered lands. The contributors investigate linkages between the early explorers’ experiences, their influence on indigenous peoples, and perceptions of the region as reflected in printed maps of the period. This body of images, which incorporated Indian information, made a powerful impression on the still largely preliterate people of Europe, reshaping their world.
Author | : Rosenberg Library |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Robert S. Weddle |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780890966617 |
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In this crowning touch to his historical trilogy, Robert S. Weddle resumes the dramatic voyage of discovery and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico (the Spanish Sea) and along its coast. Combining thorough research with elegant narrative, Changing Tides treats the reader to political intrigue, tales of hurricanes and shipwrecks, and the rich historiography that marks the period between 1763 and 1803. The book opens with a series of territorial transfers that drove France from the North American continent and launched a flurry of exploration by Spain and England, each eager to survey its new territory and align its defenses. Spanish reconnaissance of the Texas barrier islands and lagoons in response to a rumored English threat and three voyages to survey and map the Gulf Coast west of the Mississippi River demonstrate international rivalry as a spur to exploration. The story concludes with Spain's retrocession of Louisiana to France and the immediate sale of the territory to the United States, a milestone toward the young nation's Manifest Destiny. Using sources previously underutilized by historians, Weddle raises new questions concerning events of the late eighteenth century and the politics that drove them, with emphasis on exploration and mapping in the Gulf. Scholars and students of Texas history, Spanish borderlands, and colonial America and Latin America will value this final installment in Weddle's meticulous, well-researched, and expertly written study.
Author | : Lionel V. Loroña |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780810827028 |
Download A Bibliography of Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographies, 1985-1989 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The fifth supplement to Arthur E. Gropp's A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies (1968), covering bibliographies published 1985-89, and those published earlier but not noted in previous supplements. For the first time, includes Caribbean bibliographies. The 1,867 citations are unannotated. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Texas |
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Download Stirpes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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Download Texas Library Journal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Cartographers |
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Download The Map Collector Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Margaret Swett Henson |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625110146 |
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Built in the winter of 1839-1840, this house, and the Texas pioneer who inhabited it, are the central focus of this thoroughly researched and well-written study of Galveston's merchant elite—Gail Borden, Michel Menard, Thomas McKinney, and others—a generation of leaders who did much to shape their city and Texas itself.
Author | : Daniel Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1616891726 |
Download Cartographies of Time Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Our critically acclaimed smash hit Cartographies of Time is now available in paperback. In this first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time, authors Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton have crafted a lively history featuring fanciful characters and unexpected twists and turns. From medieval manuscripts to websites, Cartographies of Time features a wide variety of timelines that in their own unique ways, curving, crossing, branching, defy conventional thinking about the form. A fifty-four-foot-long timeline from 1753 is mounted on a scroll and encased in a protective box. Another timeline uses the different parts of the human body to show the genealogies of Jesus Christ and the rulers of Saxony. Ladders created by missionaries in eighteenth-century Oregon illustrate Bible stories in a vertical format to convert Native Americans. Also included is the April 1912 Marconi North Atlantic Communication chart, which tracked ships, including the Titanic, at points in time rather than by their geographic location, alongside little-known works by famous figures, including a historical chronology by the mapmaker Gerardus Mercator and a chronological board game patented by Mark Twain. Presented in a lavishly illustrated edition, Cartographies of Time is a revelation to anyone interested in the role visual forms have played in our evolving conception of history