Terrae Incognitae
The Journal for the History of Discoveries
Contents of the current issue (Vol 35, 2003)
Contributors
Aldo Alvarez is a professional engineer, a member of the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico, and a recent member of the Society for the History of Discoveries. He presented this paper at the Society’s 2002 Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Christophe Boucher is Assistant Professor in History at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina.
Lina del Castillo is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Florida in Coral Gables. She also presented her paper at the Society’s Conference in Guadalajara.
Michael Mathes, of Plainview, Texas and the Sutro Library of San Francisco, California, also presented this paper at the Society’s 2002 Guadalajara Conference, which he largely organized.
Carol Medlicott, of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, won the Society’s 2002 student essay contest with this paper, which she read in Guadalajara.
Dennis Reinhartz, of the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, is a longtime member of the Society, and a specialist both in the history of Eastern Europe and in that of cartography.
Articles
| Aldo Alvarez |
Geomagnetism and the Cartography of Juan de La
Cosa: A New Perspective on the Greater Antilles in the Age of Discovery |
1 |
| Michael Mathes |
Non-traditional Armies in New Spain during the Habsburg Viceroyalties and their Service in Exploratory Expeditions |
16 |
| Christophe Boucher |
“The land God gave to Cain”: Jacques Cartier Encounters the Mythological Wild Man in Labrador |
28 |
| Dennis Reinhartz |
An Exploration of the “Silences” on Various Late Eighteenth-Century Maps of Northern New Spain |
43 |
| Carol Medlicott |
Re-Thinking Geographical Exploration as Intelligence Collection: The Example of Lewis and Clark’s “Corps of Discovery” |
54 |
| Lina Del Castillo |
Cabeza de Vaca and the Reconstruction of American Identity |
69 |
Current Bibliography
|
Fred Musto |
Recent Literature in Discovery History
|
83 |
Book Reviews
|
Amir Alexander |
Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice
Reviewed by Douglas Peck |
97 |
| Gauvin Bailey |
Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America,
1542-1773
Reviewed by Anthony Mullan |
98 |
| Samuel Bawlf |
Sir Francis Drake’s Secret Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, AD 1579
Reviewed by Michael Mathes |
100 |
| Herbert Bolton |
The Hasinais: Southern Caddoans as seen by the Earliest
Europeans
Reviewed by Joseph Bastien |
102 |
| Michael Brennan, ed. |
The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant
(1647-1656)
Reviewed by Mark Fissel |
103 |
| April Carlucci and
Peter Barber, eds. |
Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of
Maps
Reviewed by Dennis Reinhartz |
105 |
| Andrew David
et al., eds. |
The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794: The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina, volume
I
Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia |
106 |
| Kathleen Deagan and
José Maria Cruxent |
Archaeology of La Isabela: America’s First European
Town
Reviewed by William Carter |
108 |
| James Delgado |
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest
Passage
Reviewed by David Buisseret |
110 |
| James Enterline |
Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus: Medieval European Knowledge of
America
Reviewed by John Parker |
110 |
| Ronald Fritze |
New World: The Great Voyages of Discovery
1400-1600
Reviewed by David Buisseret |
112 |
| Stephen Hyslop |
Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest,
1806-1848
Reviewed by Paula Rebert |
113 |
| Lourdes Ita Rubio |
Viajeros isabelinos en la Nueva España
Reviewed by Rod Lévesque |
115 |
| Donald Jackson |
Thomas Jefferson and the Rocky Mountains |
116 |
| James Ronda |
Lewis and Clark among the Indians |
|
| Charles Clarke |
The Men of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition
Reviewed by Carol Medlicott |
|
| François Lagarde, ed. |
The French in
Texas
Reviewed by David Buisseret |
120 |
| Philip Lawson |
A Taste for Empire and Glory: Studies in British Overseas Expansion,
1660-1800
Reviewed by Mary Emily Miller |
121 |
| Didier Marcotte, ed. |
Humanisme et Culture Géographique à l’Epoque du Concile de
Constance
Reviewed by David Buisseret |
125 |
| David Murphy |
German Exploration of the Polar World, a History,
1870-1940
Reviewed by Roger Balm |
126 |
| John Swift and
Joseph Urgo, eds. |
Willa Cather and the American
Southwest
Reviewed by Briavel Holcomb |
127 |
| David Yelverton |
Antarctica Unveiled: Scott’s First Expedition and the Quest for the Unknown
Continent
Reviewed by Robert Highbarger |
129 |
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