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Author Koot, Christian J., author.

Title A Biography of a Map in Motion Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake / Christian J. Koot
Published New York : New York University Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :) illustrations, maps
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1. The Merchant -- 2. The Mapmaker -- 3. The Planter -- 4. The Patron and the Engraver -- 5. The Consumers -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-271) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Herrman, Augustine, 1621 or 1622-1686.
Herrman, Augustine, 1621 or 1622-1686. Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year 1670
SUBJECT Herrman, Augustine, 1621 or 1622-1686 fast
Subject Cartography -- Maryland -- History
Cartographers -- Maryland -- Biography
REFERENCE -- Atlases & Gazetteers.
TRAVEL -- Maps & Road Atlases.
Cartographers
Cartography
SUBJECT Virginia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Maryland -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Maryland -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081755
Subject Maryland
United States -- Chesapeake Bay Region
Virginia
Genre/Form Biographies
Early works
History
Maps
Maps.
Cartes géographiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse.
LC no. 2017008112
ISBN 9781479827251
1479827258
1479837296
9781479837298