Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations in the Text -- Introduction -- Chapter One: An Archipelago of Settlements and Tolderías -- Chapter Two: Projecting Possession -- Chapter Three: Mapping the Tolderías' Mansion -- Chapter Four: Simultaneous Sovereignties -- Chapter Five: Where the Lines End -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Summary
"During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques and mapmakers met considers what these efforts meant to Indigenous peoples whose lands the border crossed. Moving beyond common frameworks that assess mapped borders strictly via colonial law or Native sovereignty, it examines the interplay between imperial and Indigenous spatial imaginaries. What results is an intricate spatial history of border making in southeastern South America (present-day Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay) with global implications"-- Provided by publisher
