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Distributed for the Historic New Orleans Collection

Edited by Alfred E. Lemmon, John T. Magill, and Jason R. Wiese

Charting Louisiana

Five Hundred Years of Maps

John R. Hébert, Consulting Editor
408 pages, 193 maps and more than 40 chapter illustrations; all full-color plates  14 x 12  © 2003

Cloth $95.00

ISBN: 9780917860478   Published April 2003

Related links: See images of maps from the book.

Foreword by Mary Louise Christovich
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction by John R. Hébert

Chapter 1
Discovery and Early Cartography of the Northern Gulf Coast
Paul E. Hoffman

Chapter 2
La Louisiane / La Luisiana: a Bourtcbon Colony
Alfred E. Lemmon

Chapter 3
Forming a General Geographical Idea of a Country:
Mapping Louisiana from 1803 to 1820
Ralph E. Ehrenberg

Chapter 4
Mapping Louisiana in the Nineteenth Century
Mark F. Fernandez

Chapter 5
Torrents of Change: Louisiana in the Modern Age
Jason R. Wiese

Chapter 6
New Orleans through Three Centuries
John T. Magill

Cartobibliography

Selected Readings

Contributors

Index
Subjects


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