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The fascinating process by which the Great Basin evolved from terra incognita to recognized region through art as well as science. The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to European-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin , geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basins gradual emergence from its "large cartographic silence" both paralleled the development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and cartography, and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of the European colonial powers and the United States. Francaviglias compelling, wide-ranging discussion combines an explanation of the physical realities of the Great Basin with a cogent examination of the ways humans, from early Native Americans to nineteenth-century surveyors to twentieth-century highway and air travelers, have understood, defined, and organized this space, psychologically and through the medium of maps. This book explores the relationship between mapmakers from various cultures and nationsSpain, Mexico, France, England

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Author

Richard V. Francaviglia

Publisher

University of Nevada Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874176407

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Mathematics