Enrique d’Almonte (1858 – 1917) was a very famous cartographer and civil geographer. He made some of the best maps of Spanish colonies thanks to its ability for mesure and cartographic draw in bad situations and with few material, and its qualities as explorer, someone interested in aspects like linguistic, geology, botanic, ectnography, etc.His work […]
The organisers of the internacional simposium Mapping Empires – Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea makes a new call for papers (see pdf here) to participate in with contributions (papers and posters) focus on research about cartography centrados en la of Africa, Asia, Oceanía and the Americas, related to exploration and imperial activity, cnot only 19 century, but 18 century and 20 century. Remember: the simposium will […]
The HGIS de las Indias project is a system of historic and geographic data of colonial America of 18th. It is based on web services and it is opened to everyone that wants to use the recopile data as well as to add news. For example, at this moment, there is a petition to share demographic data […]
From September 13 to 15 of 2018 it will take place in the Weston Library of Oxford, the international simposiumMapping Empires – Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea organized by the Comissió sobre Història de la Cartografia of International Cartographic Association (ICA), the Comissió sobre Cartografia Topogràfica, of the ICA too, and the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford University. Now it is opened the deadline to present […]
Until the next 2 of May it can be visited the exhibition “Made in Algeria, généalogie d’un territoire” in the MuCEM (Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée) of Marsella. The exhibition is organised in colaboración with L´Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art and Bibliothèque Nationale de France. It is set up by more than 200 pieces among maps, pictures, photographs, […]