1st Edition
Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789
Biography
Irina Saladin is permanent lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Koblenz. In 2018 she received her PhD from the University of Tuebingen. Until 2022 she was a member of the DFG priority program “Early Modern Translation Cultures.” In her current project, she is studying eighteenth-century maps by French geographers. Pamela E. Selwyn holds a PhD in History from Princeton University and has worked as a freelance translator in Berlin for many years.
"Saladin artfully combines an array of primary documents with the most recent scholarship to offer a comprehensive analysis of Jesuit cartography of early modern Amazonia. Those interested in the history of religion will find this book an important vehicle for appreciating how the production of spatial knowledge was one of the pillars of Catholic missionary work in the New World." - Roberto Chauca, The Catholic Historical Review
