Chapter 2 Into the Interior: Reading the Native Landscape of the Great Lakes in European Maps, 1612–1755

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: people’s nature
6. Chapter 1 Staking Claims on Native Lands: The Symbolic Power of Indigenous Cartographic Conventions in the Ayer Map of Teotihuacan Mexico (1560) and Its Copies 19
7. Chapter 2 Into the Interior: Reading the Native Landscape of the Great Lakes in European Maps, 1612–1755 41
8. Chapter 3 Currents of Influence: Indigenous River Names in the American South 65
9. Chapter 4 Oysters and Emancipation: The Antebellum Shellfish Industry as a Pathway to Freedom 88
10. Part Two: Reinventors’ nature
11. Chapter 5 Transcending the Alps in the Andes: Charles Marie de La Condamine, Pierre Bouguer, and the Graphic Invention of the Mountain Range 115
12. Chapter 6 On the Trail with Humboldt: Mapping the Orinoco as Transnational Space 135
13. Chapter 7 Palms and Other Trees on Maps: Exoticism, Error, and Environment, from Old World to New 157
14. Chapter 8 Beyond the Map: Landscape, History, and the Routes of Cortés 180
15. Part three: the state’s nature
16. Chapter 9 Nature Knows No Bounds: Mapping Challenges at the US-Mexico Border 209
17. Chapter 10 Visualizing the Enlarged Homestead Act: Mapping Power and Place in Early Twentieth-Century US Land Policy 223
18. Chapter 11 Mapping Canadian Nature and the Nature of Canadian Mapping 239
19. Chapter 12 Seeing Forests as Systems: Maps of North American Forest Conditions and the Emergence of Visual-Ecological Thinking 270
20. Epilogue The View from across the Pond 291
21. Acknowledgments 299
22. Appendix Critical Map Reading for the Environment 303
23. List of Contributors 307
24. Notes 313
25. Index 373