10. Space Production and Spanish Imperial Geopolitics

Abstract

This article will ignore that commonplace of Whig historiography which seeks to see maps as a sort of driving force of movement or, in other words, to explain the progress of voyages or explorations by (or for) the existence of such representations of the seas or territories. We are backing a different strategy: to emphasize that maps are a highly original and efficient form of managing time. Thus, paradoxically, geographers would be experts at translating spaces into time: how long a journey might take (roads), the traces of administrators (estates or towns), the memory of conflicts (borders), the existence of sponsors (the names of things) or the signs of progress (ports or mines).

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