Overview
3,822 perimeter miles. 11,247 rivers and streams. 8,749 feet at its height. 268,596 square miles in total. Texas is big. Julius Caesar once quipped that all of ancient Gaul could be divided up into three parts. Texas resists such easy division. Mapping Texas, edited by John S. Wilson, presents an array of early maps, dating from 1561 to 1860. The volume features selections from the extensive material housed in the Frances C. Poage Map Room of The Texas Collection at Baylor University. The painstaking labors of Spanish, French, English, and Mexican mapmakers illustrate the progressive and differing views of Texas geography and boundaries. Originally used as guides to new destinations, these maps also staked new claims, fueled by new dreams, on new territory that settlers had heard about but never seen. Page by page, Texas' iconic shape gradually emerges. As now-familiar cities dot this vast expanse of land, railroads trace the outline of rivers and mountain ranges, and ports anchor the curve of the Gulf of Mexico, Texas' rich history comes to life one map at a time. The volume concludes with an analysis of map art and cartouches - beautiful images that both name the map and highlight flora and fauna. A sumptuous delight for mind and eye, this volume lavishly documents the early outlines of the land over which six flags have proudly flown.
Full Product Details
Author: John S. Wilson ,
Sierra M. Wilson ,
Rachel DeShong
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Imprint: Baylor University Press
Weight: 1.896kg
ISBN: 9781481311816
ISBN 10: 1481311816
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 30 October 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Map lovers will see many of their favourites in this book, including works by Sanson, Delisle, Tanner, Melish, De Cordova, Mitchell and Moll, as well as possibly lesser-known maps from atlases, gazettes and geography books. Over the course of the four map sections, the reader will see how these maps captured the ebb and flow of the political borders between nations before eventually fixing Texas into its iconic shape. --Mylynka Kilgore Cardona Imago Mundi
"Map lovers will see many of their favourites in this book, including works by Sanson, Delisle, Tanner, Melish, De Cordova, Mitchell and Moll, as well as possibly lesser-known maps from atlases, gazettes and geography books. Over the course of the four map sections, the reader will see how these maps captured the ebb and flow of the political borders between nations before eventually fixing Texas into its iconic shape. --Mylynka Kilgore Cardona ""Imago Mundi"""
Author Information
John S. Wilson is Interim Dean of University Libraries at Baylor University.Rachel DeShong is Map Curator of The Texas Collection at Baylor University. Sierra M. Wilson is Print Production Coordinator at the University of Chicago Press.
