A historian interested in the Age of Revolutions and Atlantic History, travel and exploration, and the history of cartography. See also: http://works.bepress.com/jordana_dym
Centroamérica durante las revoluciones atlanticas: El vocabulario político, 1750-1850, 2014
Centroamérica durante las revoluciones atlánticas: El vocabulario político, 1750-1850 es el resul... more Centroamérica durante las revoluciones atlánticas: El vocabulario político, 1750-1850 es el resultado de un proyecto de investigación que involucró a doce historiadores, politólogos y filósofos vinculados a prestigiosas universidades e institutos de investigación de América Latina, España, Francia y Los Estados Unidos de América.
En la obra se estudian algunos conceptos político-sociales utilizados en América latina, España y Portugal, entre los años de 1750 y 1950 (iberconceptos) que han sido decisivos en la construcción republicana de nuestros países y desde los cuales, hoy en día, explicamos en parte la existencia, sentido y funcionamiento de ciertas instituciones, prácticas e imaginarios (Estado, Soberanía, Democracia, Pueblos, etc.).
Visto el armonioso diálogo de la historiografía, las humanidades y las ciencias sociales, el notorio esfuerzo por comprender las transformaciones del pensamiento político de Centroamérica y el rigor de las investigaciones, el Instituto Especializado de Educación Superior para la Formación Diplomática, IEESFORD, publica esta obra como una contribución al conocimiento de la historia política de la región centroamericana.
Available on JSTOR. Link below. Al parecer, tras la secesión de un territorio, no bastan las gu... more Available on JSTOR. Link below. Al parecer, tras la secesión de un territorio, no bastan las guerras exitosas, las conspiraciones y los pactos políticos para establecer un gobierno autónomo: para ser independientes hace falta una declaración. Alegato jurídico, sentencia performativa, mensaje dirigido a los pueblos del mundo, acta de nacimiento de un país, las declaraciones de independencia formaron parte ineludible de los movimientos revolucionarios en América, desde Filadelfia en 1776 hasta Chuquisaca en 1825. Este libro estudia la era de las revoluciones atlánticas a través de sus declaraciones, actas y manifiestos. Redactados por periodistas, clérigos o militares, por juntas o congresos (no siempre electos), estos documentos en ocasiones engendraron procesos largos y desgastantes, y en otras les pusieron punto final. Las declaraciones de independencia han constituido piezas clave de los muy variados repertorios del nacionalismo, desde las revoluciones del siglo XVIII hasta los procesos de descolonización africano y asiático en la segunda mitad del XX, e incluso en los albores del XXI, como lo demuestra la declaración de independencia de Kosovo, proclamada en febrero de 2008. Este libro explora el surgimiento de una nueva forma de hacer política, al analizar los textos fundacionales de las nuevas naciones del continente.
Available on JSTOR. After losing a territory, there are not enough successful wars, conspiracies, and political pacts for a government to establish itself as autonomous: in order to be independent, a government needs a declaration. Being a defence statement, a performative utterance, a message directed to the peoples of the world, a birth certificate of a country, a declaration of independence was necessarily part of every revolutionary movement in America, from Philadelphia in 1776 to Chuquisaca in 1825. This book deals with the age of Atlantic revolutions by means of studying its declarations, acts, and manifestos. Redacted by journalists, clergymen, military people, and assemblies or conferences (not always elected), these documents sometimes resulted in long and exhausting processes, while at another times they put an end to them. Declarations of independence have played a key role in the various forms of nationalism, from the eighteenth-century revolutions to the mid-twentieth-century decolonisation processes in Africa and Asia, and even at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the declaration of independence of Kosovo, proclaimed in February 2008. This book, by analysing the foundational texts of the new nations of the continent, explores the emergence of a new way of practising politics.
Online depuis 2020: https://books.openedition.org/pumi/34448
Ce volume présente des travaux réce... more Online depuis 2020: https://books.openedition.org/pumi/34448 Ce volume présente des travaux récents sur une dimension peu étudiée de l’histoire napoléonienne et atlantique, rassemblant des spécialistes de l’histoire nord-américaine, latino-américaine et européenne. Sans prétendre fournir un traitement exhaustif du véritable choc qu’a produit Napoléon dans le monde atlantique - de la vente de la Louisiane aux Etats-Unis et de la révolution haïtienne jusqu’aux mouvements d’indépendance ibéro-américains - dans l’ensemble les différents chapitres permettent de suivre les conséquences directes et indirectes du retrait français de l’Amérique après 1804-1805, et suggèrent comment les guerres mondiales et les programmes réformateurs de l’ère napoléonienne ont contribué aux sociétés post-impériales qui ont émergé dans l’espace atlantique. En tant que tel, ce livre offre aux spécialistes des études napoléoniennes une nouvelle approche des thèmes classiques de la modernisation dans les domaines militaire, religieux, juridique et administratif et s’étend jusqu’aux politiques artistiques et aux influences culturelles dans les Amériques.
Éditeur : Presses universitaires du Midi Collection : Méridiennes
Lieu d’édition : Toulouse
Année d’édition : 2009
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 08 juin 2020
EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9782912025494
EAN électronique : 9782810709526
English-language publication of Napoléon et les Amériques. Table of Contents, Author Bios, and I... more English-language publication of Napoléon et les Amériques. Table of Contents, Author Bios, and Introduction co-written by Christophe Belaubre, Jordana Dym and John Savage.
De las independencias iberoamericanas a los estados nacionales (1810-1850) : 200 años de historia , 2009
Este capítulo estudio la consolidación de los espacios en un estado
en Ivana Frasquet Miguel y ... more Este capítulo estudio la consolidación de los espacios en un estado
en Ivana Frasquet Miguel y Andréa Slemian, De las independencias iberoamericanas a los estados nacionales (1810-1850) : 200 años de historia / Ivana Frasquet Miguel (Madrid : Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt : Vervuert, 2009,) (Estudios AHILA de Historia Latinoamericana, 6), 217-242. ISBN 9788484894957 (Nº:80557) Historia Hispanoamérica / A.L. 1ª Modernización - 1898-1945 / A.L. 1945 - / América Latina Analiza no sólo el proceso de independencia de los antiguos territorios coloniales de las monarquías ibéricas, sino también el proceso de construcción de un nuevo orden estatal en las nacientes repúblicas americanas.
Pouvoirs des familles, familles de pouvoir [Actes du Colloque des 5-7 octobre 2000] , 2005
This chapter is an edited version of a presentation made at a colloquium organized by Michel Bert... more This chapter is an edited version of a presentation made at a colloquium organized by Michel Bertrand, the volume editor, at the Université de Toulouse II - Le Mirail in 2000. The entire volume can be found at Dialnet, https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/libro?codigo=694345
New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870., 2016
in John Tutino, ed., New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-18... more in John Tutino, ed., New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870. This essay is based on a paper originally presented as “Guatemala, 1750-1850,” Symposium, New Nations in a New World: The Americas, 1750-1870, Georgetown University Americas initiative, New Nations in a New World: The Americas, 1750-1870, John Tutino, organizer, Washington, D.C., March 2011.
This essay explores the long and complex process of establishing Guatemala's national geo-body an... more This essay explores the long and complex process of establishing Guatemala's national geo-body and map, and the equally long experience of presenting and teaching them. It begins with the establishment of the state in 1825, follows a long nineteenth century of establishing and marking international boundaries and internal political and administrative divisions, and concludes in the twenty-first century as different groups adopt the competing geo-body territories and peoples, seemingly unconsciously, to establish their own claims to belong to and participate in Guatemalan debate and development. I argue that over these two hundred years, a two-step process of "decolonization" and "democratization" shaped the national territorial map. For Guatemala, decolonization occurred in two phases as the government identified land and people over which it claimed sovereignty, successfully administer them, and develop the ability to represent that claim cartographically. For the map to be fully decolonized, I suggest, the government must both create national maps and employ national agents and institutions to create maps considered "accurate" or effective to both internal and external audiences. In addition, civil society must also adopt and adapt representations of the geo-body in more popular cartography for it to be "democratized".
Keywords: Guatemala, decolonization, democraticization, cartography, popular culture, popular cartography, territory, boundaries, geo-body, nation-state, indigenous communities, mass media, tourism, education
This essay examines the acts, declarations and pacts that proliferated throughout Central America... more This essay examines the acts, declarations and pacts that proliferated throughout Central America from 1821 to 1823, shaping the region's separation from Spain, incorporation into Mexico, and eventual creation of a (short-lived) sovereign country, the Federal Republic of Central America.
Published in Marco Palacios, ed. Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Interpretaciones 200 años después (Bogotá, Colombia: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2009), 339-336; included also in David Díaz Arias and Ronny Viales Hurtado, Eds, Independencias, Estados, y Política (s) en la Centroamérica del sdiglo XIX (San José, Costa Rica, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012).
The full book is available online as of April 2019 . See link below.
This chapter considers the ways in which documents prepared by Central America's elites for parti... more This chapter considers the ways in which documents prepared by Central America's elites for participation in the Cortes of Cádiz demonstrate their political views on the cusp of crisis, and the ways in which the new magna carta contributed to regionalism that marked Central America's independence and long nineteenth-century.
Chapter 3, of Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla, The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World: The Impact of the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012), p 63-90.
In Véronique Hébrard and Geneviève Verdo, eds., Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Un objeto d... more In Véronique Hébrard and Geneviève Verdo, eds., Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Un objeto de historia
(Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2013)
Initially presented at Las independencias hispanoamericanas: un objet d'histoire (2011).
Centroamérica durante las revoluciones atlanticas: El vocabulario político, 1750-1850, 2014
Centroamérica durante las revoluciones atlánticas: El vocabulario político, 1750-1850 es el resul... more Centroamérica durante las revoluciones atlánticas: El vocabulario político, 1750-1850 es el resultado de un proyecto de investigación que involucró a doce historiadores, politólogos y filósofos vinculados a prestigiosas universidades e institutos de investigación de América Latina, España, Francia y Los Estados Unidos de América.
En la obra se estudian algunos conceptos político-sociales utilizados en América latina, España y Portugal, entre los años de 1750 y 1950 (iberconceptos) que han sido decisivos en la construcción republicana de nuestros países y desde los cuales, hoy en día, explicamos en parte la existencia, sentido y funcionamiento de ciertas instituciones, prácticas e imaginarios (Estado, Soberanía, Democracia, Pueblos, etc.).
Visto el armonioso diálogo de la historiografía, las humanidades y las ciencias sociales, el notorio esfuerzo por comprender las transformaciones del pensamiento político de Centroamérica y el rigor de las investigaciones, el Instituto Especializado de Educación Superior para la Formación Diplomática, IEESFORD, publica esta obra como una contribución al conocimiento de la historia política de la región centroamericana.
Available on JSTOR. Link below. Al parecer, tras la secesión de un territorio, no bastan las gu... more Available on JSTOR. Link below. Al parecer, tras la secesión de un territorio, no bastan las guerras exitosas, las conspiraciones y los pactos políticos para establecer un gobierno autónomo: para ser independientes hace falta una declaración. Alegato jurídico, sentencia performativa, mensaje dirigido a los pueblos del mundo, acta de nacimiento de un país, las declaraciones de independencia formaron parte ineludible de los movimientos revolucionarios en América, desde Filadelfia en 1776 hasta Chuquisaca en 1825. Este libro estudia la era de las revoluciones atlánticas a través de sus declaraciones, actas y manifiestos. Redactados por periodistas, clérigos o militares, por juntas o congresos (no siempre electos), estos documentos en ocasiones engendraron procesos largos y desgastantes, y en otras les pusieron punto final. Las declaraciones de independencia han constituido piezas clave de los muy variados repertorios del nacionalismo, desde las revoluciones del siglo XVIII hasta los procesos de descolonización africano y asiático en la segunda mitad del XX, e incluso en los albores del XXI, como lo demuestra la declaración de independencia de Kosovo, proclamada en febrero de 2008. Este libro explora el surgimiento de una nueva forma de hacer política, al analizar los textos fundacionales de las nuevas naciones del continente.
Available on JSTOR. After losing a territory, there are not enough successful wars, conspiracies, and political pacts for a government to establish itself as autonomous: in order to be independent, a government needs a declaration. Being a defence statement, a performative utterance, a message directed to the peoples of the world, a birth certificate of a country, a declaration of independence was necessarily part of every revolutionary movement in America, from Philadelphia in 1776 to Chuquisaca in 1825. This book deals with the age of Atlantic revolutions by means of studying its declarations, acts, and manifestos. Redacted by journalists, clergymen, military people, and assemblies or conferences (not always elected), these documents sometimes resulted in long and exhausting processes, while at another times they put an end to them. Declarations of independence have played a key role in the various forms of nationalism, from the eighteenth-century revolutions to the mid-twentieth-century decolonisation processes in Africa and Asia, and even at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the declaration of independence of Kosovo, proclaimed in February 2008. This book, by analysing the foundational texts of the new nations of the continent, explores the emergence of a new way of practising politics.
Online depuis 2020: https://books.openedition.org/pumi/34448
Ce volume présente des travaux réce... more Online depuis 2020: https://books.openedition.org/pumi/34448 Ce volume présente des travaux récents sur une dimension peu étudiée de l’histoire napoléonienne et atlantique, rassemblant des spécialistes de l’histoire nord-américaine, latino-américaine et européenne. Sans prétendre fournir un traitement exhaustif du véritable choc qu’a produit Napoléon dans le monde atlantique - de la vente de la Louisiane aux Etats-Unis et de la révolution haïtienne jusqu’aux mouvements d’indépendance ibéro-américains - dans l’ensemble les différents chapitres permettent de suivre les conséquences directes et indirectes du retrait français de l’Amérique après 1804-1805, et suggèrent comment les guerres mondiales et les programmes réformateurs de l’ère napoléonienne ont contribué aux sociétés post-impériales qui ont émergé dans l’espace atlantique. En tant que tel, ce livre offre aux spécialistes des études napoléoniennes une nouvelle approche des thèmes classiques de la modernisation dans les domaines militaire, religieux, juridique et administratif et s’étend jusqu’aux politiques artistiques et aux influences culturelles dans les Amériques.
Éditeur : Presses universitaires du Midi Collection : Méridiennes
Lieu d’édition : Toulouse
Année d’édition : 2009
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 08 juin 2020
EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9782912025494
EAN électronique : 9782810709526
English-language publication of Napoléon et les Amériques. Table of Contents, Author Bios, and I... more English-language publication of Napoléon et les Amériques. Table of Contents, Author Bios, and Introduction co-written by Christophe Belaubre, Jordana Dym and John Savage.
De las independencias iberoamericanas a los estados nacionales (1810-1850) : 200 años de historia , 2009
Este capítulo estudio la consolidación de los espacios en un estado
en Ivana Frasquet Miguel y ... more Este capítulo estudio la consolidación de los espacios en un estado
en Ivana Frasquet Miguel y Andréa Slemian, De las independencias iberoamericanas a los estados nacionales (1810-1850) : 200 años de historia / Ivana Frasquet Miguel (Madrid : Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt : Vervuert, 2009,) (Estudios AHILA de Historia Latinoamericana, 6), 217-242. ISBN 9788484894957 (Nº:80557) Historia Hispanoamérica / A.L. 1ª Modernización - 1898-1945 / A.L. 1945 - / América Latina Analiza no sólo el proceso de independencia de los antiguos territorios coloniales de las monarquías ibéricas, sino también el proceso de construcción de un nuevo orden estatal en las nacientes repúblicas americanas.
Pouvoirs des familles, familles de pouvoir [Actes du Colloque des 5-7 octobre 2000] , 2005
This chapter is an edited version of a presentation made at a colloquium organized by Michel Bert... more This chapter is an edited version of a presentation made at a colloquium organized by Michel Bertrand, the volume editor, at the Université de Toulouse II - Le Mirail in 2000. The entire volume can be found at Dialnet, https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/libro?codigo=694345
New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870., 2016
in John Tutino, ed., New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-18... more in John Tutino, ed., New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870. This essay is based on a paper originally presented as “Guatemala, 1750-1850,” Symposium, New Nations in a New World: The Americas, 1750-1870, Georgetown University Americas initiative, New Nations in a New World: The Americas, 1750-1870, John Tutino, organizer, Washington, D.C., March 2011.
This essay explores the long and complex process of establishing Guatemala's national geo-body an... more This essay explores the long and complex process of establishing Guatemala's national geo-body and map, and the equally long experience of presenting and teaching them. It begins with the establishment of the state in 1825, follows a long nineteenth century of establishing and marking international boundaries and internal political and administrative divisions, and concludes in the twenty-first century as different groups adopt the competing geo-body territories and peoples, seemingly unconsciously, to establish their own claims to belong to and participate in Guatemalan debate and development. I argue that over these two hundred years, a two-step process of "decolonization" and "democratization" shaped the national territorial map. For Guatemala, decolonization occurred in two phases as the government identified land and people over which it claimed sovereignty, successfully administer them, and develop the ability to represent that claim cartographically. For the map to be fully decolonized, I suggest, the government must both create national maps and employ national agents and institutions to create maps considered "accurate" or effective to both internal and external audiences. In addition, civil society must also adopt and adapt representations of the geo-body in more popular cartography for it to be "democratized".
Keywords: Guatemala, decolonization, democraticization, cartography, popular culture, popular cartography, territory, boundaries, geo-body, nation-state, indigenous communities, mass media, tourism, education
This essay examines the acts, declarations and pacts that proliferated throughout Central America... more This essay examines the acts, declarations and pacts that proliferated throughout Central America from 1821 to 1823, shaping the region's separation from Spain, incorporation into Mexico, and eventual creation of a (short-lived) sovereign country, the Federal Republic of Central America.
Published in Marco Palacios, ed. Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Interpretaciones 200 años después (Bogotá, Colombia: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2009), 339-336; included also in David Díaz Arias and Ronny Viales Hurtado, Eds, Independencias, Estados, y Política (s) en la Centroamérica del sdiglo XIX (San José, Costa Rica, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012).
The full book is available online as of April 2019 . See link below.
This chapter considers the ways in which documents prepared by Central America's elites for parti... more This chapter considers the ways in which documents prepared by Central America's elites for participation in the Cortes of Cádiz demonstrate their political views on the cusp of crisis, and the ways in which the new magna carta contributed to regionalism that marked Central America's independence and long nineteenth-century.
Chapter 3, of Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla, The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World: The Impact of the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012), p 63-90.
In Véronique Hébrard and Geneviève Verdo, eds., Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Un objeto d... more In Véronique Hébrard and Geneviève Verdo, eds., Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Un objeto de historia
(Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2013)
Initially presented at Las independencias hispanoamericanas: un objet d'histoire (2011).
The formula for international history of cartography conferences has been well established by eve... more The formula for international history of cartography conferences has been well established by events suchas the International Conference of the History of Cartography (ICHC), ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, and Simposio Iberoamericano de la Historia de la Cartograffa (SIAHC): scholars assemble in a big city for a few days of academic activities-keynote and plenary sessions, twenty-minute talks, poster sessions-with book sales, exhibitions, and refreshment breaks that provide networking opportunities and an introduction to local trea• sures, flavors, and cultures. The model works, as attested to by the growing number of conferences and attendees, as well as by cross-border, interdisciplinary scholarly ( and not soscholarly) collaborations following planned and serendipitous encounters. In March 2020, the global pandemic unleashed by the coronavirus (COVID-19} upended this model, and specifically our plans to host the 5th biennial symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap} at the Biblioteca Mario de Andrade in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After discussion, and consulting participants, we chose to move forward virtually rather than cancelling. By April, ISHMap trustees approved a revised program, and on June 12-13, we hosted an event that engaged students, scholars, archivists, librarians, and collectors from across the globe. While we regret our lost physical encounter, a largely positive experience for organizers and participants leads us to share what we learned in adapting the in-person map history conference formula for a virtual gathering, in hopes of serving others who are considering hosting virtual or hybrid events and seek to reap some of the same benefits, notably a more inclusive, global audience and the opportunity to record and share many presentations.
Cartography in the European Enlightenment, 1507-1517. Vol. 4, The History of Cartography, 2019
Jordana Dym, “Travel and Cartography,” in Matthew H. Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley, eds., Cartog... more Jordana Dym, “Travel and Cartography,” in Matthew H. Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley, eds., Cartography in the European Enlightenment, 1507-1517. Vol. 4, The History of Cartography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Submitted 2011. Published 2019. Final text.
Maps and travel go hand in glove, and the period from 1650–1750 was perhaps the golden age of travelers’ cartography. On the one hand, explorers had circumnavigated the globe, and European empires had settlements and entrepôts from the African coasts to the Pacific Islands to the American river valleys. Maps, albeit with different levels of detail and accuracy, described the world. Yet eyewitness information still had value, and the traveler who collected and shared geographical knowledge derived from personal experience or local interlocutors was welcomed as wise and useful by cosmographers and cartographers compiling ever more “useful,” “exact,” “correct,” and “accurate” maps. By the late eighteenth century, however, as on-site surveys displaced compilations for producing the most highly valued and accurate maps, travelers’ cartographic contributions became less trustworthy, unless noted scientists like Charles-Marie de La Condamine and Alexander von Humboldt produced the data. This period thus saw both the rise and decline of the European traveler as cartographer or purveyor of valuable “new” information, as well as the proliferation of cartography in travel accounts both factual and fictional. Map production and use by travelers can be considered in two main categories: one related to the European Grand Tour, already well established in the seventeenth century, and the other to Europeans going farther afield, notably to the other three “corners” of the earth: Asia, Africa and America.
The History of Cartography, Volume 4 Cartography in the European Enlightenment, 2019
Administrative Cartography in Spanish America (18th century)
The article covers maps made as p... more Administrative Cartography in Spanish America (18th century)
The article covers maps made as part of military, religious and other government visitas, relaciones geograficas and for local administration, and discusses the increase in publication of local and regional maps in Spanish America in the late eighteenth century. Includes reference list and map captions.
See 2011 draft for more extensive discussion of surveying practices.
During the last decades of Habsburg rule (1650-1700) and under the Bourbon dynasty (1700-), the Spanish Crown sought to rationalize and render uniform its institutions and methods of government, to improve defenses against encroaching European empires, and to raise revenues. This agenda increased demand for, creation of, and reliance on maps as tools to represent and communicate knowledge about Spanish America by and to royal officials on both sides of the Atlantic. Administrators relied increasingly on maps to divide secular and religious jurisdictions, represent major crops, resolve territorial disputes, and implement fiscal policies. To acquire information presented in maps, Crown agents relied on traditional administrative practices-in particular officials' mandated visitas of their military, civil, and ecclesiastic jurisdictions and production of relaciones geográficas, reports detailing geographic, demographic, economic, political, ecclesiastic, and other information. However, they increasingly demanded maps by mapmakers trained in mathematics and surveying. European-born scientists, military engineers, ship pilots, and Jesuit missionaries were the most prolific of Spanish America's cartographers, while a growing number of Spanish American (Creole) savants could and did execute maps of private land and protonational spaces. Topographic maps highlighting disputed public and private estates, internal city districts, fortifications, roads, postal routes, coastal profiles, and hydrographic soundings constitute most of this cartographic repertoire. Until the late eighteenth century, most administrative maps were created and distributed in manuscript form, often as part of extensive court cases or reports that relied as much on oral testimony and descriptions of site visits (visitas de ojos) as on graphic representation. Reflecting Spanish categories, these were topographic or iconographic maps depicting a single jurisdiction (such as a city, parish, province, or kingdom) or relating to defense (plans of coasts, roads, waterways, or fortresses) or settlement (new missions, frontier areas); they differed from chorographic maps showing a país or region or general maps of more extensive terrain (López 1775-83, 1:5-6). Maps meant for daily use or imperial decision making ranged from building plans and schematic diagrams to painted drawings to technically sophisticated topographic maps. Increased mapping by state agents helped the Spanish Bourbons plan reforms and "enabled the imagination of a different reality, more orderly than that existing, and that sometimes the viceregal administration succeeded in modifying" (León García 2009, 445-46) (fig. 1).
The dominant practice in Western map studies has been to consider maps as “sovereign,” that is, a... more The dominant practice in Western map studies has been to consider maps as “sovereign,” that is, as individual images separated from the material context of their production, circulation, and consumption. Book studies, also, have generally overlooked maps when considering graphic elements such as engravings and photographs. Yet many maps are located within, and contribute to, the larger arguments of books of all kinds, including histories, geographies, travel accounts, and novels. This article asks what changes theoretically and in practice when we dethrone the “sovereign map” and engage with maps as “bound images,” a hybrid graphic and textual part of the stories told by authors and publishers which is experienced by readers in book form through materiality, context, and significance. By way of conclusion, we offer an approach to analyzing maps in context, and an appendix with initial guiding questions.
Accelerate: Access & Inclusion at The Tang Teaching Museum , 2018
A reflection inspired by painter Nancy Chunn's "A Study for Nicaragua; No One Has the Money, Ever... more A reflection inspired by painter Nancy Chunn's "A Study for Nicaragua; No One Has the Money, Everyone Has the Guns" (1986) on maps, art and history.
Spanish-language translation of Mapitas, Geografías Visualizadas and hte Editorial Piedra Santa: ... more Spanish-language translation of Mapitas, Geografías Visualizadas and hte Editorial Piedra Santa: A Mission to Democratize Cartographic Literacy in Guatemala (Journal of Latin American Geography 14 (30), 2015. Follow the link to see the full essay online. UrL: https://issuu.com/editorialpiedrasanta/docs/la-democratizacion-de-la-cartografi_0bd901c24234bc
Mapping Movement in American History and Culture, 2013
An essay that is part of Mapping Movement in American History and Culture, a peer-reviewed collec... more An essay that is part of Mapping Movement in American History and Culture, a peer-reviewed collection of online essays in map history. URL: https://newberry.org/mapping-movement
This essay and the 10 maps it presents focus on three big ideas: Exploration, extraction and experience, which many maps from these places and this period presented to the men, women and children who moved in the hemisphere during Latin America’s first independent century. Road maps, atlases, newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, corporate brochures, travel accounts, geography books, government reports will reward those inclined to travel, to explore, and to investigate further with many more possibilities of finding routes to, through, and around the hemisphere.
Citation:
Volume 14, Number 3, October 2015, 245-272
Special Issue: Mapping Latin American Geogra... more Citation: Volume 14, Number 3, October 2015, 245-272 Special Issue: Mapping Latin American Geographies Guest Editor: Karl Offen Abstract
In the 1940s, Guatemala was in the midst of its Ten Years of Spring, and school teachers were enthusiastically creating materials to teach new generations of schoolchildren about their Guatemalan past, present, and future. One model was the Geografía elemental de Guatemala (1936) written by Argentine-trained educator and future president Juan José Arévalo. But Arévalo’s book, while filled with interesting maps and cutting-edge statistics and encouraging teachers to engage students with hands-on exercises, was both expensive and perhaps too demanding. Enter high school teachers Julio and Oralia Piedra Santa, who began selling 1-cent “mapitas” to schoolchildren in 1947. Arévalo’s book is now a rarity and poorly known. The Editorial Piedra Santa, run today by their daughter and granddaughter, is a thriving publishing business which still sells mapitas in its store in downtown Guatemala City. It’s also been a pioneer in a range of school materials, and since the 1950s has been selling geography and other schoolbooks, including since 1976 the Geografía Visualizada series. This essay looks at the mapmaking traditions of Don Julio and his successors, and how the publications of the Editorial Piedra Santa consistently seek to enhance geographic knowledge of Guatemala and beyond at all ages and levels of society. Resumen
En la década de los 1940, Guatemala se encontraba en medio de sus diez años de primavera, y los maestros de escuela crearon con entusiasmo materiales para introducir a las nuevas generaciones de escolares al pasado presente y futuro de Guatemala. Un modelo fue la Geografía elemental de Guatemala (1936), escrito por el educador y futuro presidente Juan José Arévalo, quién estudió en Argentina. Pero el libro de Arévalo, aunque lleno de interesantes mapas y estadísticas para alentar a los maestros a participar a los estudiantes con ejercicios prácticos, costaba caro y tal vez introdujo tareas demasiado exigentes. Entran los profesores de secundaria Julio y Oralia Piedra Santa, quienes comenzaron a vender “mapitas” a un centavo a los escolares en 1947. El libro de Arévalo es ahora una rareza [End Page 245] y poco conocido. La Editorial Piedra Santa, bajo el mando hoy de la hija y la nieta de sus fundadores, es un próspero negocio editorial que todavía vende mapitas en su tienda en el centro de la ciudad de Guatemala, entre muchos otros materiales. Un pionero en una gama de materiales escolares, desde la década de 1950 ha vendido libros de geografía entre otros, incluso desde 1976 la serie Geografía Visualizada. Este ensayo analiza las tradiciones de mapeo de Julio Piedra Santa y sus sucesores, y cómo las publicaciones de la Editorial Piedra Santa buscan mejorar el conocimiento geográfico de Guatemala y más allá para todos edades y los niveles de la sociedad. Keywords maps, Guatemala, Piedra Santa, geography textbooks, geography education
Historical maps deserve a place in the college classroom as primary sources. Since the 1980s, sch... more Historical maps deserve a place in the college classroom as primary sources. Since the 1980s, scholarship has shown how maps can be analyzed and interpreted to reveal something not only about the peoples, spaces, and times they portray but also about the societies that create, consume, and contest them. Over the last decade, the maps themselves have become increasingly accessible, as important research libraries and archives digitize their holdings. Yet these graphic texts are not yet staples of college curricula or documentary readers. This essay provides a brief overview of recent research in the history of cartography and presents two examples of map discussion modules for the Latin American history classroom: a demonstration of US neocolonialism, resource extraction, and social change in late nineteenth-century eastern Nicaragua, and a case of urban planning and ideas of order in colonial Mexico City.
URL: https://editorial.us.es/es/ano-12-no-24-2010
Introduction to monographic issue of Araucaria... more URL: https://editorial.us.es/es/ano-12-no-24-2010 Introduction to monographic issue of Araucaria with articles by Iris Kantor, Lina del Castillo, Carla Lois, Ernesto Capello, and Irma Beatriz García Rojas.
This paper examines maps produced by and for travelers to Central America between 1821 and 1945, ... more This paper examines maps produced by and for travelers to Central America between 1821 and 1945, a genre of cartography rarely considered either by historical geographers or scholars of travel literature. The paper argues that during first half of this period, travelers initially considered map production as a key element in a travel account, preparing maps for future consideration rather than using them to travel. With the advent of the railroad, steamship, automobile, and airline, 20th century travelers became map consumers rather than producers. Between 1821 and 1945, the content of travelers' maps also evolved. Initial travelers to independent Central America mapped political geography, emphasizing state boundaries established in the region's independence (1821–1839). Subsequent travelers surveyed the interior for purposes of commercial development (1839–1886), focusing on transit—railroad and canal routes, mining, and colonization. By the late 19th century, with geographically accurate maps available to a general public in atlas and other forms, travelers contributed ‘personalized’ maps that no longer intended to represent accurate topography but other scientific knowledge or entertainment, and by the mid-20th century, maps became the work of publishers while travelers produced photographs and illustrations.
This paper examines maps produced by and for travelers to Central America between 1821 and 1950, ... more This paper examines maps produced by and for travelers to Central America between 1821 and 1950, a genre of cartography rarely considered either by historical geographers or scholars of travel literature. The paper argues that during first half of this period, travelers initially considered map production as a key element in a travel account, preparing maps for future consideration rather than using them to travel. With the advent of the railroad, steamship, automobile, and airline, twentieth-century travelers became map consumers rather than producers. Between 1821 and 1950, the content of travelers' maps also evolved. Initial travelers to independent Central America mapped political geography, emphasizing state boundaries established in the region's independence (1821-1839). Subsequent travelers surveyed the interior for purposes of commercial development (1839-1886), focusing on transit -- railroad and canal routes --, mining, and colonization. By the late nineteenth century, with geographically accurate maps available to a general public in atlas and other forms, travelers contributed "personalized" maps that no longer intended to represent accurate topography but other scientific knowledge or entertainment, and by the mid-twentieth century, maps became the work of publishers while travelers produced photographs and illustrations.
Entre 1808 y 1850, las provincias y luego los estados independientes centroamericanos organizar... more Entre 1808 y 1850, las provincias y luego los estados independientes centroamericanos organizaron centenares de elecciones. Este artículo examina las constituciones y reglamentos electorales para entender la teoría electoral. Los ponen en conversación con los libros de elecciones, listados de votantes, periódicos, correspondencia, y otros documentos que revelan las prácticas a nivel municipal, estatal, y federal. El análisis muestra que el resultado sorprendente de un sistema que privilegió el voto indirecto y el poder del cuerpo legislativo en imponer resultados, era un compromiso ciudadano importante que, al final, preparó a la región para ampliar los derechos del ciudadano (al menos en papel) en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Palabras clave: América Central, elecciones, siglo XIX, cultura política, ciudadanía
The Spanish publication of "Citizen of Which Republic?" (The Americas, 2006). Published by Itine... more The Spanish publication of "Citizen of Which Republic?" (The Americas, 2006). Published by Itinerarios, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad de Rosario, Argentina.
... 94-117, and Mar-cello Carmagnani and Alicia Hernandez, "Dimensiones de la ciudadania org... more ... 94-117, and Mar-cello Carmagnani and Alicia Hernandez, "Dimensiones de la ciudadania organica mexicana, 1850-1910," pp. ... (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1964) and ThomasSchoonover, The French in Central America: Commerce and Culture, 1820-1930 ...
Introduction:
Essays contributed by JCB Fellows in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Library'... more Introduction:
Essays contributed by JCB Fellows in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Library's Fellowship Program
Two scholars immediately spring to mind when thinking about fundamental English-language works on the history of cartography: Lloyd A. Brown (1907-1966) and J.B. Harley (1932-1991). Brown, a Providence, Rhode Island native and author of The Story of Maps (1949) and Map Making: The Art that Became a Science (1960), worked in the rare book trade as a curator and librarian, and as an instructor of geography and cartography. Brian Harley, from the other side of the “Pond”, was a geographer and map historian who first worked on England’s early large-scale surveys (including the Ordnance Survey) before considering maps’ role in European statecraft and the Columbian encounter and finding their “new nature” (2001); like Brown, Harley sought to increase public interest in and understanding of maps, first publishing reference works to help local historians and later becoming a founding co-editor of The History of Cartography (1987- ), working with David Woodward at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Brown made the story of maps’ technology and makers accessible in the mid-20th century; twenty years later, Harley convinced a new generation of scholars that the history of cartography could also include the analysis of maps as cultural artifacts—the tools of empire, nation, commerce, or, to put it bluntly, power. Both of these influential scholars and public voices are alumni of the JCB Fellowship program—Brown in 1962-63, the JCB Fellowships’ inaugural year, and Harley following soon after, in 1965-66. One had already published his seminal work, the other was beginning to reshape his scholarship. At the library, Brown was thinking about “The Mapping of America” while Harley investigated “William Faden: Eighteenth-Century Mapmaker”—showcasing the history of cartography’s relevance for projects reaching for hemispheric scope or digging into individual activity.
Since the 1960s, more than three dozen junior and senior scholars in history, geography, art history and cultural studies have followed in their footsteps as fellows working with the Library’s extensive collection of manuscript and printed maps, atlases, geographies, histories, reports of discovery and exploration, and a host of other materials with cartographic connections. Even more have found their way to the map room on the ground floor, and been fascinated and inspired as maps were deftly pulled from flat files and laid out for review. Nor were they alone. Fellows, visitors, and others who find inspiration in the JCB’s holdings have benefited from the enthusiasm, inspiration and (most importantly) guidance of Jeannette D. Black and Susan Danforth, curators and stewards of the collections and contributors to many exhibitions. By showcasing selections from the map collection, the JCB has illustrated, complemented and driven home the arguments by mounting real and online exhibitions on cartography (Map Talk, 2010) but also everything from chocolate to medicine to war to slavery, from 1492 to the early 1820s.
Although much of the subsequent cartographic scholarship by JCB fellows has focused on English, Spanish, French and Portuguese empires in the Americas, an intrepid few have considered everything from the mapping of Africa to German, Dutch, and Italian cartographies to the meaning of ships on maps. Fellows Jack Crowley, Lina del Castillo, Jordana Dym, Matthew Edney, Carla Lois, Joyce Lorimer, W. George Lovell, Paul Mapp, Karl Offen, Heidi Scott, Richard Unger, and Chet Van Duzer offer initial contributions to the “Cartographic Conversation” that will take place at the conference celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the JCB’s Fellowship Program next month.
———Jordana Dym, May 2012
ESSAYS
Lina del Castillo:
Plaching Basque Merchant Power in Cruz Cano's Map of South America
Jack Crowley
Where was the British Empire?
Jordana Dym
Coastal Visions.
Matthew H. Edney
The Lessons of a Generic Map: The 1793 Map of William Bingham’s Maine Lands
Francesca Fiorani:
The Enduring Power of Forgery and Imagination
Carla Lois
Quarta Pars, iSLAND or continent?
Joyce Lorimer:
guiana during the late elizabethan and early stuart period
W. George LoVell:
A Tale of Two Maps
Paul Mapp:
What Maps From the John Carter Brown Library Meant for Me
Karl Offen:
Isthmus designs
Heidi Scott:
A Geography of Mineral Wealth:
Herman Moll's map of South America
Rrichard W. Unger:
The Thorne map, 1527
Chet Van Duzer:
The Yale Martellus Map of ca. 1491
En este ensayo se realiza un análisis de la cartografía en La República Federal de
Centroamérica... more En este ensayo se realiza un análisis de la cartografía en La República Federal de
Centroamérica (1823-1838). El enfoque esta puesto en el periodo entre la independencia de Centroamérica y la primera producción de mapas oficiales de las nuevas repúblicas unas décadas después. El caso estudiado es un mapa de Centroamérica de 1829 hecho por George A. Thompson, el primer chargé d’affaires Británico en México y Centroamérica. Se explica que Thompson usaba fuentes que trajo de Inglaterra pero también dependía de conocimientos cartográficos de intelectuales locales, a veces con resultados que frustraron los líderes centroamericanos. Se enfatiza que para profundizar nuestras investigaciones sobre las influencias cartográficas y mirar los primeros
esfuerzos por representar las nuevas repúblicas, tenemos que entender los intercambios de los europeos visitantes e intelectuales locales y verlos como una cartografía híbrida.
The title and author names are listed on this sheet as they will be published, both on your paper... more The title and author names are listed on this sheet as they will be published, both on your paper and on the Table of Contents. Please review and ensure the information is correct and advise us if any changes need to be made. In addition, please review your paper as a whole for typographical and essential corrections. Your PDF proof has been enabled so that you can comment on the proof directly using Adobe Acrobat. For further information on marking corrections using Acrobat, please visit http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/production/acrobat.asp; https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/how-to-correct-proofs-with-adobe/ The CrossRef database (www.crossref.org/) has been used to validate the references. Changes resulting from mismatches are tracked in red font.
The dominant practice in Western map studies has been to consider maps as “sovereign,” that is, a... more The dominant practice in Western map studies has been to consider maps as “sovereign,” that is, as individual images separated from the material context of their production, circulation, and consumption. Book studies, also, have generally overlooked maps when considering graphic elements such as engravings and photographs. Yet many maps are located within, and contribute to, the larger arguments of books of all kinds, including histories, geographies, travel accounts, and novels. This article asks what changes theoretically and in practice when we dethrone the “sovereign map” and engage with maps as “bound images,” a hybrid graphic and textual part of the stories told by authors and publishers which is experienced by readers in book form through materiality, context, and significance. By way of conclusion, we offer an approach to analyzing maps in context, and an appendix with initial guiding questions.
Online depuis 2020: https://books.openedition.org/pumi/34448 Ce volume présente des travaux récen... more Online depuis 2020: https://books.openedition.org/pumi/34448 Ce volume présente des travaux récents sur une dimension peu étudiée de l’histoire napoléonienne et atlantique, rassemblant des spécialistes de l’histoire nord-américaine, latino-américaine et européenne. Sans prétendre fournir un traitement exhaustif du véritable choc qu’a produit Napoléon dans le monde atlantique - de la vente de la Louisiane aux Etats-Unis et de la révolution haïtienne jusqu’aux mouvements d’indépendance ibéro-américains - dans l’ensemble les différents chapitres permettent de suivre les conséquences directes et indirectes du retrait français de l’Amérique après 1804-1805, et suggèrent comment les guerres mondiales et les programmes réformateurs de l’ère napoléonienne ont contribué aux sociétés post-impériales qui ont émergé dans l’espace atlantique. En tant que tel, ce livre offre aux spécialistes des études napoléoniennes une nouvelle approche des thèmes classiques de la modernisation dans les domaines militaire, religieux, juridique et administratif et s’étend jusqu’aux politiques artistiques et aux influences culturelles dans les Amériques. Éditeur : Presses universitaires du Midi Collection : Méridiennes Lieu d’édition : Toulouse Année d’édition : 2009 Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 08 juin 2020 EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9782912025494 EAN électronique : 9782810709526
Las Independencias Hispanoamericanas Un Objeto De Historia 2013 Isbn 978 84 96820 95 1 Pags 81 100, 2013
"In Véronique Hébrard and Geneviève Verdo, eds., Las independencias hispanoameri... more "In Véronique Hébrard and Geneviève Verdo, eds., Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Un objeto de historia (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2013) Initially presented at Las independencias hispanoamericanas: un objet d'histoire (2011)."
This paper examines maps produced by and for travelers to Central America between 1821 and 1950, ... more This paper examines maps produced by and for travelers to Central America between 1821 and 1950, a genre of cartography rarely considered either by historical geographers or scholars of travel literature. The paper argues that during first half of this period, travelers initially considered map production as a key element in a travel account, preparing maps for future consideration rather than using them to travel. With the advent of the railroad, steamship, automobile, and airline, twentieth-century travelers became map consumers rather than producers. Between 1821 and 1950, the content of travelers' maps also evolved. Initial travelers to independent Central America mapped political geography, emphasizing state boundaries established in the region's independence (1821-1839). Subsequent travelers surveyed the interior for purposes of commercial development (1839-1886), focusing on transit -- railroad and canal routes --, mining, and colonization. By the late nineteenth century, with geographically accurate maps available to a general public in atlas and other forms, travelers contributed "personalized" maps that no longer intended to represent accurate topography but other scientific knowledge or entertainment, and by the mid-twentieth century, maps became the work of publishers while travelers produced photographs and illustrations.
The stories of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., come alive in maps showcasing growth of European settleme... more The stories of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., come alive in maps showcasing growth of European settlement by mineral springs to a thriving resort town and destination city, now celebrating its centennial. Starting with a 1772 manuscript map of the Kayaderosseras Patent and ending with a pictorial puzzle map, the exhibition ranges throug 250 years of guidebook maps, city planning maps, route maps and more.
This exhibition at the Saratoga Springs History Museum (April 14-December 31, 2015) is the fruit of two years of colalboration between Skidmore College's History Department, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, John B Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative, the Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, City Historian and Saratoga County Historian. Jordana Dym's Mapping the Americas class (fall/spring '15) researched and prepared materials selected by the project's curatorial committee.
Student Emily Sloan edited text & designed the brochure, Giulia Morrone georeferenced exhibitio maps, Deirdre Schiff and Allie Smith helped develop the online exhibition site/catalogued upwards of 100 maps.
Talk and contribution to the conference exhibition,
Mapping the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900, , a... more Talk and contribution to the conference exhibition, Mapping the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900, , at the David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, organized by Karen Wïgen and G. Salim Mohammed, February 16, 2019. Conference talk link: https://youtu.be/jtI5eGLDnzY
Presentation at DPLA Fest 2019 of a collaborative project between a class in public history, a me... more Presentation at DPLA Fest 2019 of a collaborative project between a class in public history, a media archive and a filmmaker. The panel shared perspectives of the three partners, and included Sara Chapman (executive director, Media Burn Archive) and Deb Ellis (filmmaker and faculty in television and media studies,University of Vermont).
This powerpoint includes the presenters' slides.
Panel description: Telling the People's History From the Cutting Room Floor
How can we harness the power of media to challenge conventional narratives about history, community, and public policy? This panel showcases a collaboration between archivists, media makers, students, and educators to draw out untold stories from historical footage. Our case study specifically examines the remixing of interviews of Civil Rights organizers, anti-Vietnam War activists, and scholars who were filmed for the documentary Howard Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004). Participants will walk away with a model for building collaborations to remix and reuse archival documentary materials to tell new stories.
Part of the Tang Teaching Museum's Faculty Voices project
The Role of Material Culture in Histor... more Part of the Tang Teaching Museum's Faculty Voices project
The Role of Material Culture in Historical Studies of the Non-written Past HI 111: Introduction to Latin American History
Professor Jordana Dym’s assignment directed students to study a pre-Columbian object from the Tang collection without the influence of textual support.
Guiding students through the process of careful observation, this assignment challenged students to explore the role of material culture in historical studies of the non-written past. “After picking a pre-Columbian object in the Tang Museum’s permanent collection, you will write a 500-700 word narrative essay that first describes the physical object (what is it?) and then interprets and analyzes what the object suggests to you about the society that made it WITHOUT using any other sources.”
La introducción de alcaldes de barrio en Nueva Guatemala, capital del reino de Guatemala, a final... more La introducción de alcaldes de barrio en Nueva Guatemala, capital del reino de Guatemala, a finales del siglo XVIII, inició veinte años de pleitos entre el capitán general, la Audiencia, el Cabildo y varios inmigrantes españoles sobre la posición de esta nueva institución de seguridad pública dentro del sistema de organismos de gobierno reales y locales. ¿Dependerían los alcaldes de barrio del Cabildo, autoridad tradicional de policía, o de la Audiencia? ¿Quiénes serían aptos para el servicio, españoles "honrados", "distinguidos", o simplemente "vecinos" del barrio? ¿Qué sería igual a o menor al honor de servir en este nuevo cargo honorífico o en el Cabildo, la milicia o el consulado de comercio? Al analizar los expedientes presentados al Consejo de Indias sobre el establecimiento de alcaldes de barrio en Guatemala se ilustra cómo las condiciones locales complicaron o imposibilitaron la "uniformidad" de gobierno promovido por el gobierno borbónico, prestando especial atención a la dinámica entre tres grupos pudientes en las vísperas de la independencia centroamericana.
Palabras Clave
Guatemala, gobierno municipal, reformas borbónicas, policía, política local
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The system of 'alcaldes de barrio', or neighborhood watches, was introduced in late eighteenth-century Nueva Guatemala to increase urban public order to police the plebe of a growing, multi-ethnic city. This innovation set in motion a twentu-year dispute over the position of this public security institution within the existing structure of royal and local government organizaions. However, roya agents and city councilors differed on two fundamental issues: the individuals qualified to hold the positions of 'alcaldes de barrio' and whether supervisors would be city councilors, who held traditional policing authority, or imperial officials. The twenty-year battle over how to select, manage, and define the responsabilities of the 'alcaldes' not only shows how local conditions undermined attempoted uniformity in Spanish governance in the closing years of colonial rule. The details that emerge from the columinous cases presented to the Council of Indies by the capitain general, audiencia, city, council and even slighted Spanish immigrants provide insight into the relation between and competition for the municipal, military and commercial posts that nprovided prestige and access to power.
Key words
Guatemala, municipal goverment, Bourbon reforms, police, local politics
November 2011 extended draft for the paper published in 2019, The History of Cartography, Volume ... more November 2011 extended draft for the paper published in 2019, The History of Cartography, Volume 4 Cartography in the European Enlightenment., ed. Matthew H. Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley. For published version, see 2019 paper.
The article covers maps made as part of military, religious and other government visitas, relaciones geograficas and for local administration, and discusses the increase in publication of local and regional maps in Spanish America in the late eighteenth century. Includes reference list and map captions.
Jordana Dym y Sajid Alfredo Herrera Mena (coordinadores), San Salvador. IEESFORD, 2014
Se trata del resultado de un proyecto de investigación que involucró a doce historiadores, politó... more Se trata del resultado de un proyecto de investigación que involucró a doce historiadores, politólogos y filósofos vinculados a prestigiosas universidades y centros de investigación de América Latina, España, Francia y Estados Unidos de América. Se estudian 16 conceptos dentro de un marco crucial de cien años y bajo la metodología de la historia conceptual.
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En la obra se estudian algunos conceptos político-sociales utilizados en América latina, España y Portugal, entre los años de 1750 y 1950 (iberconceptos) que han sido decisivos en la construcción republicana de nuestros países y desde los cuales, hoy en día, explicamos en parte la existencia, sentido y funcionamiento de ciertas instituciones, prácticas e imaginarios (Estado, Soberanía, Democracia, Pueblos, etc.).
Visto el armonioso diálogo de la historiografía, las humanidades y las ciencias sociales, el notorio esfuerzo por comprender las transformaciones del pensamiento político de Centroamérica y el rigor de las investigaciones, el Instituto Especializado de Educación Superior para la Formación Diplomática, IEESFORD, publica esta obra como una contribución al conocimiento de la historia política de la región centroamericana.
Francisco Salvador Fonseca Salgado
Rector
Available on JSTOR. After losing a territory, there are not enough successful wars, conspiracies, and political pacts for a government to establish itself as autonomous: in order to be independent, a government needs a declaration. Being a defence statement, a performative utterance, a message directed to the peoples of the world, a birth certificate of a country, a declaration of independence was necessarily part of every revolutionary movement in America, from Philadelphia in 1776 to Chuquisaca in 1825. This book deals with the age of Atlantic revolutions by means of studying its declarations, acts, and manifestos. Redacted by journalists, clergymen, military people, and assemblies or conferences (not always elected), these documents sometimes resulted in long and exhausting processes, while at another times they put an end to them. Declarations of independence have played a key role in the various forms of nationalism, from the eighteenth-century revolutions to the mid-twentieth-century decolonisation processes in Africa and Asia, and even at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the declaration of independence of Kosovo, proclaimed in February 2008. This book, by analysing the foundational texts of the new nations of the continent, explores the emergence of a new way of practising politics.
Ce volume présente des travaux récents sur une dimension peu étudiée de l’histoire napoléonienne et atlantique, rassemblant des spécialistes de l’histoire nord-américaine, latino-américaine et européenne. Sans prétendre fournir un traitement exhaustif du véritable choc qu’a produit Napoléon dans le monde atlantique - de la vente de la Louisiane aux Etats-Unis et de la révolution haïtienne jusqu’aux mouvements d’indépendance ibéro-américains - dans l’ensemble les différents chapitres permettent de suivre les conséquences directes et indirectes du retrait français de l’Amérique après 1804-1805, et suggèrent comment les guerres mondiales et les programmes réformateurs de l’ère napoléonienne ont contribué aux sociétés post-impériales qui ont émergé dans l’espace atlantique. En tant que tel, ce livre offre aux spécialistes des études napoléoniennes une nouvelle approche des thèmes classiques de la modernisation dans les domaines militaire, religieux, juridique et administratif et s’étend jusqu’aux politiques artistiques et aux influences culturelles dans les Amériques.
Éditeur : Presses universitaires du Midi Collection : Méridiennes
Lieu d’édition : Toulouse
Année d’édition : 2009
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 08 juin 2020
EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9782912025494
EAN électronique : 9782810709526
Book Chapters by Jordana Dym
en Ivana Frasquet Miguel y Andréa Slemian, De las independencias iberoamericanas a los estados nacionales (1810-1850) : 200 años de historia / Ivana Frasquet Miguel (Madrid : Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt : Vervuert, 2009,) (Estudios AHILA de Historia Latinoamericana, 6), 217-242.
ISBN 9788484894957 (Nº:80557)
Historia Hispanoamérica / A.L. 1ª Modernización - 1898-1945 / A.L. 1945 - / América Latina
Analiza no sólo el proceso de independencia de los antiguos territorios coloniales de las monarquías ibéricas, sino también el proceso de construcción de un nuevo orden estatal en las nacientes repúblicas americanas.
ISBN: 2-912025-19-2
Keywords: Guatemala, decolonization, democraticization, cartography, popular culture, popular cartography, territory, boundaries, geo-body, nation-state, indigenous communities, mass media, tourism, education
Published in Marco Palacios, ed. Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Interpretaciones 200 años después (Bogotá, Colombia: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2009), 339-336; included also in David Díaz Arias and Ronny Viales Hurtado, Eds, Independencias, Estados, y Política (s) en la Centroamérica del sdiglo XIX (San José, Costa Rica, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012).
The full book is available online as of April 2019 . See link below.
Chapter 3, of Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla, The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World: The Impact of the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012), p 63-90.
(Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2013)
Initially presented at Las independencias hispanoamericanas: un objet d'histoire (2011).
Talks by Jordana Dym
En la obra se estudian algunos conceptos político-sociales utilizados en América latina, España y Portugal, entre los años de 1750 y 1950 (iberconceptos) que han sido decisivos en la construcción republicana de nuestros países y desde los cuales, hoy en día, explicamos en parte la existencia, sentido y funcionamiento de ciertas instituciones, prácticas e imaginarios (Estado, Soberanía, Democracia, Pueblos, etc.).
Visto el armonioso diálogo de la historiografía, las humanidades y las ciencias sociales, el notorio esfuerzo por comprender las transformaciones del pensamiento político de Centroamérica y el rigor de las investigaciones, el Instituto Especializado de Educación Superior para la Formación Diplomática, IEESFORD, publica esta obra como una contribución al conocimiento de la historia política de la región centroamericana.
Francisco Salvador Fonseca Salgado
Rector
Available on JSTOR. After losing a territory, there are not enough successful wars, conspiracies, and political pacts for a government to establish itself as autonomous: in order to be independent, a government needs a declaration. Being a defence statement, a performative utterance, a message directed to the peoples of the world, a birth certificate of a country, a declaration of independence was necessarily part of every revolutionary movement in America, from Philadelphia in 1776 to Chuquisaca in 1825. This book deals with the age of Atlantic revolutions by means of studying its declarations, acts, and manifestos. Redacted by journalists, clergymen, military people, and assemblies or conferences (not always elected), these documents sometimes resulted in long and exhausting processes, while at another times they put an end to them. Declarations of independence have played a key role in the various forms of nationalism, from the eighteenth-century revolutions to the mid-twentieth-century decolonisation processes in Africa and Asia, and even at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the declaration of independence of Kosovo, proclaimed in February 2008. This book, by analysing the foundational texts of the new nations of the continent, explores the emergence of a new way of practising politics.
Ce volume présente des travaux récents sur une dimension peu étudiée de l’histoire napoléonienne et atlantique, rassemblant des spécialistes de l’histoire nord-américaine, latino-américaine et européenne. Sans prétendre fournir un traitement exhaustif du véritable choc qu’a produit Napoléon dans le monde atlantique - de la vente de la Louisiane aux Etats-Unis et de la révolution haïtienne jusqu’aux mouvements d’indépendance ibéro-américains - dans l’ensemble les différents chapitres permettent de suivre les conséquences directes et indirectes du retrait français de l’Amérique après 1804-1805, et suggèrent comment les guerres mondiales et les programmes réformateurs de l’ère napoléonienne ont contribué aux sociétés post-impériales qui ont émergé dans l’espace atlantique. En tant que tel, ce livre offre aux spécialistes des études napoléoniennes une nouvelle approche des thèmes classiques de la modernisation dans les domaines militaire, religieux, juridique et administratif et s’étend jusqu’aux politiques artistiques et aux influences culturelles dans les Amériques.
Éditeur : Presses universitaires du Midi Collection : Méridiennes
Lieu d’édition : Toulouse
Année d’édition : 2009
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 08 juin 2020
EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9782912025494
EAN électronique : 9782810709526
en Ivana Frasquet Miguel y Andréa Slemian, De las independencias iberoamericanas a los estados nacionales (1810-1850) : 200 años de historia / Ivana Frasquet Miguel (Madrid : Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt : Vervuert, 2009,) (Estudios AHILA de Historia Latinoamericana, 6), 217-242.
ISBN 9788484894957 (Nº:80557)
Historia Hispanoamérica / A.L. 1ª Modernización - 1898-1945 / A.L. 1945 - / América Latina
Analiza no sólo el proceso de independencia de los antiguos territorios coloniales de las monarquías ibéricas, sino también el proceso de construcción de un nuevo orden estatal en las nacientes repúblicas americanas.
ISBN: 2-912025-19-2
Keywords: Guatemala, decolonization, democraticization, cartography, popular culture, popular cartography, territory, boundaries, geo-body, nation-state, indigenous communities, mass media, tourism, education
Published in Marco Palacios, ed. Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Interpretaciones 200 años después (Bogotá, Colombia: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2009), 339-336; included also in David Díaz Arias and Ronny Viales Hurtado, Eds, Independencias, Estados, y Política (s) en la Centroamérica del sdiglo XIX (San José, Costa Rica, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012).
The full book is available online as of April 2019 . See link below.
Chapter 3, of Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla, The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World: The Impact of the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012), p 63-90.
(Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2013)
Initially presented at Las independencias hispanoamericanas: un objet d'histoire (2011).
Cartography, and Simposio Iberoamericano de la Historia de la Cartograffa (SIAHC): scholars assemble in a big city for a few days of academic activities-keynote and plenary sessions, twenty-minute talks, poster sessions-with book sales, exhibitions, and refreshment breaks that provide networking opportunities and an introduction to local trea•
sures, flavors, and cultures. The model works, as attested to by the growing number of conferences and attendees, as well as by cross-border, interdisciplinary scholarly ( and not soscholarly) collaborations following planned and serendipitous encounters.
In March 2020, the global pandemic unleashed by the coronavirus (COVID-19} upended this model, and specifically our plans to host the 5th biennial symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap} at the Biblioteca Mario de Andrade in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
After discussion, and consulting participants, we chose to move forward virtually rather than cancelling. By April, ISHMap trustees approved a revised program, and on June 12-13, we hosted an event that engaged students, scholars, archivists, librarians, and collectors from across the globe. While we regret our lost physical encounter, a largely positive
experience for organizers and participants leads us to share what we learned in adapting the in-person map history conference formula for a virtual gathering, in hopes of serving others who are considering hosting virtual or hybrid events and seek to reap some of the same benefits, notably a more inclusive, global audience and the opportunity to
record and share many presentations.
Maps and travel go hand in glove, and the period from 1650–1750 was perhaps the golden age of travelers’ cartography. On the one hand, explorers had circumnavigated the globe, and European empires had settlements and entrepôts from the African coasts to the Pacific Islands to the American river valleys. Maps, albeit with different levels of detail and accuracy, described the world. Yet eyewitness information still had value, and the traveler who collected and shared geographical knowledge derived from personal experience or local interlocutors was welcomed as wise and useful by cosmographers and cartographers compiling ever more “useful,” “exact,” “correct,” and “accurate” maps. By the late eighteenth century, however, as on-site surveys displaced compilations for producing the most highly valued and accurate maps, travelers’ cartographic contributions became less trustworthy, unless noted scientists like Charles-Marie de La Condamine and Alexander von Humboldt produced the data. This period thus saw both the rise and decline of the European traveler as cartographer or purveyor of valuable “new” information, as well as the proliferation of cartography in travel accounts both factual and fictional. Map production and use by travelers can be considered in two main categories: one related to the European Grand Tour, already well established in the seventeenth century, and the other to Europeans going farther afield, notably to the other three “corners” of the earth: Asia, Africa and America.
Print edition: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo4149971.html
The article covers maps made as part of military, religious and other government visitas, relaciones geograficas and for local administration, and discusses the increase in publication of local and regional maps in Spanish America in the late eighteenth century. Includes reference list and map captions.
See 2011 draft for more extensive discussion of surveying practices.
During the last decades of Habsburg rule (1650-1700) and under the Bourbon dynasty (1700-), the Spanish Crown sought to rationalize and render uniform its institutions and methods of government, to improve defenses against encroaching European empires, and to raise revenues. This agenda increased demand for, creation of, and reliance on maps as tools to represent and communicate knowledge about Spanish America by and to royal officials on both sides of the Atlantic. Administrators relied increasingly on maps to divide secular and religious jurisdictions, represent major crops, resolve territorial disputes, and implement fiscal policies. To acquire information presented in maps, Crown agents relied on traditional administrative practices-in particular officials' mandated visitas of their military, civil, and ecclesiastic jurisdictions and production of relaciones geográficas, reports detailing geographic, demographic, economic, political, ecclesiastic, and other information. However, they increasingly demanded maps by mapmakers trained in mathematics and surveying. European-born scientists, military engineers, ship pilots, and Jesuit missionaries were the most prolific of Spanish America's cartographers, while a growing number of Spanish American (Creole) savants could and did execute maps of private land and protonational spaces. Topographic maps highlighting disputed public and private estates, internal city districts, fortifications, roads, postal routes, coastal profiles, and hydrographic soundings constitute most of this cartographic repertoire. Until the late eighteenth century, most administrative maps were created and distributed in manuscript form, often as part of extensive court cases or reports that relied as much on oral testimony and descriptions of site visits (visitas de ojos) as on graphic representation. Reflecting Spanish categories, these were topographic or iconographic maps depicting a single jurisdiction (such as a city, parish, province, or kingdom) or relating to defense (plans of coasts, roads, waterways, or fortresses) or settlement (new missions, frontier areas); they differed from chorographic maps showing a país or region or general maps of more extensive terrain (López 1775-83, 1:5-6). Maps meant for daily use or imperial decision making ranged from building plans and schematic diagrams to painted drawings to technically sophisticated topographic maps. Increased mapping by state agents helped the Spanish Bourbons plan reforms and "enabled the imagination of a different reality, more orderly than that existing, and that sometimes the viceregal administration succeeded in modifying" (León García 2009, 445-46) (fig. 1).
This essay and the 10 maps it presents focus on three big ideas: Exploration, extraction and experience, which many maps from these places and this period presented to the men, women and children who moved in the hemisphere during Latin America’s first independent century. Road maps, atlases, newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, corporate brochures, travel accounts, geography books, government reports will reward those inclined to travel, to explore, and to investigate further with many more possibilities of finding routes to, through, and around the hemisphere.
Volume 14, Number 3, October 2015, 245-272
Special Issue: Mapping Latin American Geographies
Guest Editor: Karl Offen
Abstract
In the 1940s, Guatemala was in the midst of its Ten Years of Spring, and school teachers were enthusiastically creating materials to teach new generations of schoolchildren about their Guatemalan past, present, and future. One model was the Geografía elemental de Guatemala (1936) written by Argentine-trained educator and future president Juan José Arévalo. But Arévalo’s book, while filled with interesting maps and cutting-edge statistics and encouraging teachers to engage students with hands-on exercises, was both expensive and perhaps too demanding. Enter high school teachers Julio and Oralia Piedra Santa, who began selling 1-cent “mapitas” to schoolchildren in 1947. Arévalo’s book is now a rarity and poorly known. The Editorial Piedra Santa, run today by their daughter and granddaughter, is a thriving publishing business which still sells mapitas in its store in downtown Guatemala City. It’s also been a pioneer in a range of school materials, and since the 1950s has been selling geography and other schoolbooks, including since 1976 the Geografía Visualizada series. This essay looks at the mapmaking traditions of Don Julio and his successors, and how the publications of the Editorial Piedra Santa consistently seek to enhance geographic knowledge of Guatemala and beyond at all ages and levels of society.
Resumen
En la década de los 1940, Guatemala se encontraba en medio de sus diez años de primavera, y los maestros de escuela crearon con entusiasmo materiales para introducir a las nuevas generaciones de escolares al pasado presente y futuro de Guatemala. Un modelo fue la Geografía elemental de Guatemala (1936), escrito por el educador y futuro presidente Juan José Arévalo, quién estudió en Argentina. Pero el libro de Arévalo, aunque lleno de interesantes mapas y estadísticas para alentar a los maestros a participar a los estudiantes con ejercicios prácticos, costaba caro y tal vez introdujo tareas demasiado exigentes. Entran los profesores de secundaria Julio y Oralia Piedra Santa, quienes comenzaron a vender “mapitas” a un centavo a los escolares en 1947. El libro de Arévalo es ahora una rareza [End Page 245] y poco conocido. La Editorial Piedra Santa, bajo el mando hoy de la hija y la nieta de sus fundadores, es un próspero negocio editorial que todavía vende mapitas en su tienda en el centro de la ciudad de Guatemala, entre muchos otros materiales. Un pionero en una gama de materiales escolares, desde la década de 1950 ha vendido libros de geografía entre otros, incluso desde 1976 la serie Geografía Visualizada. Este ensayo analiza las tradiciones de mapeo de Julio Piedra Santa y sus sucesores, y cómo las publicaciones de la Editorial Piedra Santa buscan mejorar el conocimiento geográfico de Guatemala y más allá para todos edades y los niveles de la sociedad.
Keywords
maps, Guatemala, Piedra Santa, geography textbooks, geography education
Introduction to monographic issue of Araucaria with articles by Iris Kantor, Lina del Castillo, Carla Lois, Ernesto Capello, and Irma Beatriz García Rojas.
Palabras clave: América Central, elecciones, siglo XIX, cultura política, ciudadanía
Essays contributed by JCB Fellows in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Library's Fellowship Program
Two scholars immediately spring to mind when thinking about fundamental English-language works on the history of cartography: Lloyd A. Brown (1907-1966) and J.B. Harley (1932-1991). Brown, a Providence, Rhode Island native and author of The Story of Maps (1949) and Map Making: The Art that Became a Science (1960), worked in the rare book trade as a curator and librarian, and as an instructor of geography and cartography. Brian Harley, from the other side of the “Pond”, was a geographer and map historian who first worked on England’s early large-scale surveys (including the Ordnance Survey) before considering maps’ role in European statecraft and the Columbian encounter and finding their “new nature” (2001); like Brown, Harley sought to increase public interest in and understanding of maps, first publishing reference works to help local historians and later becoming a founding co-editor of The History of Cartography (1987- ), working with David Woodward at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Brown made the story of maps’ technology and makers accessible in the mid-20th century; twenty years later, Harley convinced a new generation of scholars that the history of cartography could also include the analysis of maps as cultural artifacts—the tools of empire, nation, commerce, or, to put it bluntly, power. Both of these influential scholars and public voices are alumni of the JCB Fellowship program—Brown in 1962-63, the JCB Fellowships’ inaugural year, and Harley following soon after, in 1965-66. One had already published his seminal work, the other was beginning to reshape his scholarship. At the library, Brown was thinking about “The Mapping of America” while Harley investigated “William Faden: Eighteenth-Century Mapmaker”—showcasing the history of cartography’s relevance for projects reaching for hemispheric scope or digging into individual activity.
Since the 1960s, more than three dozen junior and senior scholars in history, geography, art history and cultural studies have followed in their footsteps as fellows working with the Library’s extensive collection of manuscript and printed maps, atlases, geographies, histories, reports of discovery and exploration, and a host of other materials with cartographic connections. Even more have found their way to the map room on the ground floor, and been fascinated and inspired as maps were deftly pulled from flat files and laid out for review. Nor were they alone. Fellows, visitors, and others who find inspiration in the JCB’s holdings have benefited from the enthusiasm, inspiration and (most importantly) guidance of Jeannette D. Black and Susan Danforth, curators and stewards of the collections and contributors to many exhibitions. By showcasing selections from the map collection, the JCB has illustrated, complemented and driven home the arguments by mounting real and online exhibitions on cartography (Map Talk, 2010) but also everything from chocolate to medicine to war to slavery, from 1492 to the early 1820s.
Although much of the subsequent cartographic scholarship by JCB fellows has focused on English, Spanish, French and Portuguese empires in the Americas, an intrepid few have considered everything from the mapping of Africa to German, Dutch, and Italian cartographies to the meaning of ships on maps. Fellows Jack Crowley, Lina del Castillo, Jordana Dym, Matthew Edney, Carla Lois, Joyce Lorimer, W. George Lovell, Paul Mapp, Karl Offen, Heidi Scott, Richard Unger, and Chet Van Duzer offer initial contributions to the “Cartographic Conversation” that will take place at the conference celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the JCB’s Fellowship Program next month.
———Jordana Dym, May 2012
ESSAYS
Lina del Castillo:
Plaching Basque Merchant Power in Cruz Cano's Map of South America
Jack Crowley
Where was the British Empire?
Jordana Dym
Coastal Visions.
Matthew H. Edney
The Lessons of a Generic Map: The 1793 Map of William Bingham’s Maine Lands
Francesca Fiorani:
The Enduring Power of Forgery and Imagination
Carla Lois
Quarta Pars, iSLAND or continent?
Joyce Lorimer:
guiana during the late elizabethan and early stuart period
W. George LoVell:
A Tale of Two Maps
Paul Mapp:
What Maps From the John Carter Brown Library Meant for Me
Karl Offen:
Isthmus designs
Heidi Scott:
A Geography of Mineral Wealth:
Herman Moll's map of South America
Rrichard W. Unger:
The Thorne map, 1527
Chet Van Duzer:
The Yale Martellus Map of ca. 1491
Centroamérica (1823-1838). El enfoque esta puesto en el periodo entre la independencia de Centroamérica y la primera producción de mapas oficiales de las nuevas repúblicas unas décadas después. El caso estudiado es un mapa de Centroamérica de 1829 hecho por George A. Thompson, el primer chargé d’affaires Británico en México y Centroamérica. Se explica que Thompson usaba fuentes que trajo de Inglaterra pero también dependía de conocimientos cartográficos de intelectuales locales, a veces con resultados que frustraron los líderes centroamericanos. Se enfatiza que para profundizar nuestras investigaciones sobre las influencias cartográficas y mirar los primeros
esfuerzos por representar las nuevas repúblicas, tenemos que entender los intercambios de los europeos visitantes e intelectuales locales y verlos como una cartografía híbrida.
This exhibition at the Saratoga Springs History Museum (April 14-December 31, 2015) is the fruit of two years of colalboration between Skidmore College's History Department, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, John B Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative, the Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, City Historian and Saratoga County Historian. Jordana Dym's Mapping the Americas class (fall/spring '15) researched and prepared materials selected by the project's curatorial committee.
Student Emily Sloan edited text & designed the brochure, Giulia Morrone georeferenced exhibitio maps, Deirdre Schiff and Allie Smith helped develop the online exhibition site/catalogued upwards of 100 maps.
See the exhibit at http://ssmp.skidmore.edu
Mapping the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900, , at the David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, organized by Karen Wïgen and G. Salim Mohammed, February 16, 2019. Conference talk link: https://youtu.be/jtI5eGLDnzY
This powerpoint includes the presenters' slides.
Panel description: Telling the People's History From the Cutting Room Floor
How can we harness the power of media to challenge conventional narratives about history, community, and public policy? This panel showcases a collaboration between archivists, media makers, students, and educators to draw out untold stories from historical footage. Our case study specifically examines the remixing of interviews of Civil Rights organizers, anti-Vietnam War activists, and scholars who were filmed for the documentary Howard Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004). Participants will walk away with a model for building collaborations to remix and reuse archival documentary materials to tell new stories.
The Role of Material Culture in Historical Studies of the Non-written Past
HI 111: Introduction to Latin American History
Professor Jordana Dym’s assignment directed students to study a pre-Columbian object from the Tang collection without the influence of textual support.
Guiding students through the process of careful observation, this assignment challenged students to explore the role of material culture in historical studies of the non-written past.
“After picking a pre-Columbian object in the Tang Museum’s permanent collection, you will write a 500-700 word narrative essay that first describes the physical object (what is it?) and then interprets and analyzes what the object suggests to you about the society that made it WITHOUT using any other sources.”
Palabras Clave
Guatemala, gobierno municipal, reformas borbónicas, policía, política local
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The system of 'alcaldes de barrio', or neighborhood watches, was introduced in late eighteenth-century Nueva Guatemala to increase urban public order to police the plebe of a growing, multi-ethnic city. This innovation set in motion a twentu-year dispute over the position of this public security institution within the existing structure of royal and local government organizaions. However, roya agents and city councilors differed on two fundamental issues: the individuals qualified to hold the positions of 'alcaldes de barrio' and whether supervisors would be city councilors, who held traditional policing authority, or imperial officials. The twenty-year battle over how to select, manage, and define the responsabilities of the 'alcaldes' not only shows how local conditions undermined attempoted uniformity in Spanish governance in the closing years of colonial rule. The details that emerge from the columinous cases presented to the Council of Indies by the capitain general, audiencia, city, council and even slighted Spanish immigrants provide insight into the relation between and competition for the municipal, military and commercial posts that nprovided prestige and access to power.
Key words
Guatemala, municipal goverment, Bourbon reforms, police, local politics
The article covers maps made as part of military, religious and other government visitas, relaciones geograficas and for local administration, and discusses the increase in publication of local and regional maps in Spanish America in the late eighteenth century. Includes reference list and map captions.