Books Read This week’s three books focused on different commodities that tied Latin America to the rest of the world: Lane, Kris E. Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2010. Of
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This week’s main reading was Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship, which came out of a 2004 conference at the Newberry Library. This volume should be recommended reading for any scholar of history, not just those
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Books Read This week’s readings focus on the African Diaspora in Latin America, particularly during the colonial and early national periods: Miller, Joseph Calder. Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
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With the permission of Dr. Petrik, instead of using one of the U.S. atlases for my evaluation assignment (directions here), I’m using the Historical Atlas of Central America by Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli, drawn by John V. Cotter. Hall is
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This week’s book, Jeremy Black‘s Maps and History, focuses on the history of, well, the historical atlas. Like the other readings in the class so far, this brought to light the contested nature of maps–in this case, how the genre of historical
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This week’s readings focused on mapping in the Americas, particularly in the time of Contact and European colonization. For me, this was rather appropriate, as my Latin America and the World minor field readings course addressed the topic of Conquest last week.
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Introduction to the Course This fall, I am working with Dr. Joan C. Bristol on a minor field readings for “Latin America and the World.” The readings are meant to complement the two courses I took for the minor field: Global Power
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For all two of my readers not from class (hi Mom!), I’ve just started a History and Cartography class for the semester. This week’s readings (week 1) focus on the idea of maps as primary sources containing arguments and agendas. Admittedly, in
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[cross-posted at the class blog] As our summer History and New Media minor field readings course draws to a close, one of the final assignments is to create our own data visualizations. For my fall 2012 “Clio 3” class, I built a
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For a long time, I’ve wanted to make a comprehensive map of the journey of Antonio López de Santa Anna, Juan Almonte, Barnard Bee, George Washington Hockley, and William Patton from Texas to Washington in 1837. The project for my summer New
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