Early Mapping of Southeast Asia

by Suarez, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9789625934709
• ISBN10: 9625934707
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-15
• Publisher: Periplus Editions

Summary

Early Mapping of Southeast Asiafollows the story of mapmaking, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It surveys Southeast Asia's geography and civilizations, its maps and their influence on Western worldviews, as well as the image of Southeast Asia in the eyes of its neighbors.

Author Biography

Thomas Suarez has served as curator for exhibits at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., the addison Gallery of American Art and Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 12
Southeast Asia
The Land and Peoples of Southeast Asia	p. 16
Southeast Asian Maps and Geographic Thought	p. 24
Asian Maps of Southeast Asia	p. 44
The Early Mediterranean and European Record
Asia and Classical Europe	p. 60
Medieval Europe	p. 66
European Pioneers	p. 74
The View from the Deck: Early European Maps
Europe's Quest for a Sea Route to the Indies	p. 82
A Confusion of Peninsulas and Dragon Tails	p. 90
Printed Maps Through 1538	p. 100
First Maps from the Spanish Voyages 1525-1540	p. 124
Giacomo Gastaldi's Three Models 1548-1565	p. 130
Tangling with Terra Australis and Snared by the Linea	p. 158
1570 - ca. 1600: Diversity in a Transition to Standardization	p. 164
Companies and Colonization
The Advent of the East India Companies	p. 200
The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries	p. 232
The Nineteenth Century and the Mapping of the Interior	p. 252
Endnotes	p. 265
References	p. 272
Index	p. 275
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