These diverse essays investigate political factors behind the rapid development of cartography in Renaissance Europe and its impact on emerging European nations

To learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well

This book describes the emergence of the territorial state and examines the role that cartography has played in shaping its linear boundaries.

This new Handbook unites cartographic theory and praxis with the principles of cartographic design and their application. It offers a critical appraisal of the