Mapping an Atlantic World, Circa 1500

by Alida C Metcalf and Alida C. Metcalf

How did intricately detailed sixteenth-century maps reveal the start of the Atlantic World?

Beginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus's voyages, the Atlantic Ocean moved from the periphery to the center on European world maps. This brief but highly significant moment in early modern European history marks not only a paradigm shift in how the world was mapped but also the opening of what historians call the Atlantic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421438526
• ISBN13: 9781421438528
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"