Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America

by Jeffrey Alan Erbig

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469655047
• ISBN13: 9781469655048
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"