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Urban images of the Hispanic world, 1493-1793 / Richard L. Kagan, with the collaboration of Fernando Marías.
Main entry:

Kagan, Richard L., 1943-

Title & Author:

Urban images of the Hispanic world, 1493-1793 / Richard L. Kagan, with the collaboration of Fernando Marías.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, ©2000.

Description:

x, 235 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.
Urbs and civitas -- Piety and polity: town and city in the Hispanic world -- Spain and America: a cartographic encounter? -- The traveller's eye -- The communicentric view -- Four cities and their images: Mexico City, Lima, Cuzco, Potosı́ -- Conclusion.
Summary:

"Focussing on cities and towns in south America, including Mexico City, Lima and Potosi this book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture. It investigates the different ways in which artists, map-makers, surveyors and military engineers represented a city in all its complexity and the different meanings that were invested in their depiction of New and Old World cities and towns."--Jacket

ISBN:

0300083149
9780300083149

Subject:

Lateinamerika
Cities and towns Latin America History Pictorial works.
Cities and towns Spain History Pictorial works.
Cities and towns Latin America History.
Cities and towns Spain History.
Villes Amérique latine Histoire.
Villes Espagne Histoire.
Villes Amérique latine Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Villes Espagne Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Cities and towns
Stadt
Steden.
Afbeeldingen (algemeen)
Motiver (Bildekunst)
Urbanisering.
Latin-Amerika.
Historisk framstilling.
Arkitektur.
Kunst.
South America. Towns cartography. [literature] 2000.
Spain. Towns cartography. [literature] 2000.
Latin America
Spain
Spanien
Cities Latin America 1490-1800.
Cities Spain 1490-1800.
Towns Latin America 1490-1800.
Towns Spain 1490-1800.
Cityscapes Latin America 1490-1800.
Cityscapes Spain 1490-1800.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Marías, Fernando, 1949-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211107
Call No.: HT127.5 .K3 2000
Status: Available

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