Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met (eBook)

Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America

Jeffrey Alan Erbig (Autor)

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2020
280 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469655055 (ISBN)

Infos

During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant to Indigenous peoples whose lands the border crossed. Moving beyond common frameworks that assess mapped borders strictly via colonial law or Native sovereignty, it examines the interplay between imperial and Indigenous spatial imaginaries. What results is an intricate spatial history of border making in southeastern South America (present-day Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay) with global implications.Drawing upon manuscripts from over two dozen archives in seven countries, Jeffrey Erbig traces on-the-ground interactions between Ibero-American colonists, Jesuit and Guaran mission-dwellers, and autonomous Indigenous peoples as they responded to ever-changing notions of territorial possession. It reveals that Native agents shaped when and where the border was drawn, and fused it to their own territorial claims. While mapmakers' assertions of Indigenous disappearance or subjugation shaped historiographical imaginations thereafter, Erbig reveals that the formation of a border was contingent upon Native engagement and authority.

Autor

Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. is assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.4.2020
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Zusatzinfo: 24 halftones, 13 maps, 6 tables
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: 18th Century History • Argentina • Bourbon and Pombaline reforms • Brazilian borderlands • Charrúas • colonial archives • Enlightenment science • ethnic reemergence • Ethnonyms • Geographic Information System (GIS) • Guaraníes • Historical Geography • history of cartography • imperial law, sovereignty, and territorial possession • Indigenous captivity • Indigenous territoriality • Jesuit Missionaries • Luso-Hispanic borderlands • Migration • Minuanes • Paraguay • Río de la Plata region • Southern Brazil • Spatial history • Treaty of Madrid • Treaty of San Ildefonso • Uruguay
• ISBN-13: 9781469655055 / 9781469655055