The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas

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ISBN: 9780226550978
Dewey: 912.72
LCC Number: GA481
Author: Barbara E Mundy
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Pages: 306
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Although Cortes conquered the Aztec empire in 1521, imperial Spain knew little about the Mexican territory under its control when Philip II acceded to the throne in 1556. As part of a vast project to learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey – the Relaciones Geograficas – of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, as king for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. Offering a contemporary record of what sixteenth-century Mexico looked like, the sixty-nine manuscript maps from this survey also highlight the gulf between colonial and indigenous conceptions of Mexico.

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Weight 1.64 lbs
Dimensions 9.29 × 8.48 × 0.86 in
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