Claiming California
From Terra Incognita to Miguel de Venegas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11013358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucile Beck (0000-0002-8718-6818, Mount Allison University, corresponding author), Lauren Beck (Mount Allison University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-18 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Terrae Incognitae (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0082-2884 • E-ISSN: 2040-8706 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/0082288413z.00000000014 |
| OpenAlex | W2126129433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Early modern European knowledge about California was informed by the impressions of the first explorers as well as by more empirical information collected over the centuries that followed, and from which the shape and extent of that territory slowly grew out of the shadows of terra incognita and Spanish possession of it became consolidated. National claims on its periphery, however, provoked continued debate about the geographical scope of California, and the desire to possess it led both English and Spanish authors and cartographers to represent these national claims, and by extension, to fill in and occupy the otherwise blank space with information that demonstrated possession. By the eighteenth century, contemporaneous textual and cartographical configurations of the American west fused empirical knowledge of that territory with an imagined landscape, sustaining an international competition for territory. This article explores early endeavours to claim California within the New World territories of England and Spain from the sixteenth century to the reception of Miguel de Venegas’ Noticia de la California, published in 1757
Archaeology · Cartography · Ethnology · Geography · Possession (linguistics · Terra incognita · Archaeology and Natural History · Historical Studies on Spain · History · Latin American history and culture
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2014 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |