Pelagios presents researchers with a fantastic set of tools for studying the world and linking texts, artifacts, and maps to historic places. However, not all the places of the past have been findable with the Pelagios set of tools. In the case of colonial Latin America, if a researcher was studying Acamuchitlan in Nueva España–or most of […]
LatAm is a collaborative effort to produce: (i) a historical gazetteer for Latin America covering the period at the end of the eighteenth century; and (ii) a digital edition of the two primary sources for that gazetteer, Antonio de Alcedo’s Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales ó América (1786); and George Alexander Thompson’s Geographical and […]
Introducing LatAm, a collaborative effort to produce a historical gazetteer for Latin America at the end of the eighteenth century. The Challenge Early Modern Latin America is still a relatively unexplored geography as far as digital mapping applications are concerned. It is true that some recent initiatives have begun to make inroads into this […]
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