Claiming land, claiming water : borders and the people who crossed them in the early modern Atlantic / edited by Rachel B. Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney.
| Other author | Herrmann, Rachel B. editor |
| Other author | Roney, Jessica C. (Jessica Choppin), 1978- editor |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2026] |
| Description | vi, 331 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations. |
| Physical medium | maps. |
| Series | Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/5f981fbc-31f5-db64-ac7a-dc3db1767967. ^A568608 |
| Contents | Introduction. Borders, places, and movement / Rachel B. Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney -- Toward a prehistory of territory : Thomas Hobbes, the Maryland palatinate, and the colonial boundary problem / Edward G. Gray -- Things to think with : the use of borders on a seventeenth-century map of New England / Christian J. Koot -- Lines on a map : crafting and contesting borders in Guillaume Delisle's and Herman Moll's early eighteenth-century maps of North America / Alex Zukas -- Data maps of downeast Maine : missionary records from the early republic borderlands / John Morton -- Depicting and defining the plantation in the early English Caribbean, 1625-1675 / Paul Musselwhite -- When a river is a border : rivalries and commercial networks in the riverine west / Kim M. Gruenwald -- Military lines : How the introduction of contours affected maps and movement / Karen Rann -- Indian centers, colonial peripheries : locating the international in early America / Charles W. A. Prior -- "Playing the old game of double" : navigating Creek and Spanish geopolitics in the post-revolutionary gulf south / Chad McCutchen and Jennifer Monroe McCutchen -- Comercio libre : revisiting a concept on trade and borders in Creek homelands / Rachel B. Herrmann -- Possibilities and peril : exploring the transnational experiences of Black people in the Maritimes, 1783-1792 / Harvey Amani Whitfield and Sarah Chute -- Amphibious tales : villagers and strangers in a border-crossing world / Samuel Truett. |
| Abstract | "Claiming Land, Claiming Water shares what historians and geographers wish readers knew about maps and borders before, during, and after the founding of the United States. The essays collected in this volume model how people can learn to interpret maps as arguments, rather than as historical facts, and to read maps for evidence of people and places that were elided, renamed, or destroyed. Contributors travel through the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries in the place known by many names: the Atlantic World; the North American continent; borderlands; and homelands. Onto this place where people exercised power over space by forging relationships, colonizers came and imagined borders onto maps. Featuring reproductions of twenty historical maps, the book takes readers through this era of immense disruption to teach them strategies for reading and interpreting these maps critically. Essays attend carefully to water alongside land and land alongside water in search of new interpretive avenues that reframe what we know about space, control, and sovereignty. By using historical examples of people--farmers, fishers, hunters, religious leaders, colonial projectors, traders, sailors, soldiers, diplomats, and cartographers, it becomes possible to resist the temptation to impose modern geographical constructs backwards onto the histories we read, teach, and write. Claiming Land, Claiming Water investigates why some of these people imagined and made claims to bounded space, and how and why other people confounded and challenged those claims"--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2025044769 |
| ISBN | 9781512829259 |
| ISBN | 1512829250 |
| ISBN | eBook |
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