Mapping Flower Plantations in the Equatorial High Andes
Cut flowers have become the premier agricultural export of the high Andes over the last two and a half decades. The expansion of...
Cut flowers have become the premier agricultural export of the high Andes over the last two and a half decades. The expansion of...
This paper considers a specific mapping exercise undertaken by cartographers in the American Geographical Society during the 1930s as part of a larger...
By contrasting a National Geographic Society (NGS) map of the Panama Canal from 1912 with an earlier French map of the canal from...
Images, maps, and written texts together may constitute an imaginative geography and provide poignant evidence for how space can be socially constructed. In...
The article explores the environmental content of urban modernity in a nineteenth-century Latin American capital city through a comparative analysis of the cartographic...
This paper discusses four key geographical works published between the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the context of competing proposals about...
In 1764, Spanish colonel Luis Diez Navarro mapped the racially diverse British settlement at Black River on what is today the coast of...
Existing scholarship on Spanish America’s cartographic cultures largely overlooks mining maps. The Bourbon era, however, witnessed a proliferation in map production within the...
The origins of this special issue can be traced to conversations four years ago I had with then-JLAG editor, David Robinson. Those early...
2015 has been a year of change for JLAG. After 13 years of sure-handed guidance from David Robinson, I took over as editor...