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The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain
Ricardo Padron
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| #2528205 in Books | 2004-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.38 | File type: PDF | 302 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| insightful investigation|By Joan Waltemath|The Spacious Word is an intelligently written scholarly work in which the author develops a thesis concerning the origins of our concept of space. Using etymology in the Romance languages as well as english, literature and documents from the Age of Discovery and earlier, and current studies in cartography, Padron carefully and through||
"Padr[5]on is an incisive critic. . . . The Spacious Word focuses a dynamic picture of the ideologies at play in the long and complicated 'invention' of America."||
The Spacious Word explores the history of Iberian expansion into the Americas as seen through maps and cartographic literature, and considers the relationship between early Spanish ideas of the world and the origins of European colonialism. Spanish mapmakers and writers, as Padrón shows, clung to a much older idea of space that was based on the itineraries of travel narratives and medieval navigational techniques.
Padrón contends too that...
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