Maps, Management and Mills in Colonial Lima, Peru (1532–1821)

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

1. This summary is based on my doctoral dissertation, ‘Andean Gristmills: Technology, Environment, and Society in Colonial Peru (1532–1821)’, to be submitted in December 2012. It was supported by a J. B. Harley fellowship (2010), a Fulbright–Hayes doctoral dissertation fellowship (2011), a National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation research improvement grant (2010–2011), and a Riva-Agüero team research grant (2011) (with G. Cogorno and G. Ramón).

2. There are 45 Libros de Cabildos de Lima dating from 1535 to 1821. The first 23 volumes were transcribed and published in Bertram Lee and Juan Bromley, Libros de Cabildos de Lima (LCL) (Lima, Torres Aguirre and Sanmarti, 1935–1964). The remainder are manuscripts in the Archivo Histórico Municipal de Lima.

3. Francisco de Toledo, Disposiciones gubernativas para el virreinato del Perú (1575–1580) (Sevilla, EEHA and CSIC, 1989), 2: 283–84.

4. Ibid., 284.

5. The Surco canal was a major pre-Hispanic canal drawn from the Rímac River.

6. Gabriel Ramón Joffré, ‘Ilustrar la urbe: planos de Lima borbónica’, Illapa: Revista del Instituo de Investigaciones Museológicos y Artisticas de la Universidad Ricardo Palma 7 (2010): 62–79.

7. Archivo Histórico Municipal de Lima: Juzgados de aguas, caja 1, documento 18:84.

8. Ramón Joffré, ‘Ilustrar la urbe’ (see note 6), 72.

9. Transcribed in Nicanor Domínguez, ‘Aguas y legislación en los valles de Lima el repartimiento de 1617’ [Water and legislation in the valleys of Lima, the distribution of 1617], Boletín del Instituto Riva-Agüero 15 (1988): 119–54.

10. Xuara LCL, 13 Sept 1574; Aliaga: LCL, 6 May 1552, 27 May 1552, 30 May 1552, 8 June 1552, 4 Nov 1552, 12 Jan 1568.

11. One example is British Library Add. MS 17673D: ‘Plano que manifiesta las dos lagunas de Lirima, su largo ancho y profundidad, con las zequias que son de menester hacer para dar corriente a las aguas de ambas lagunas’ [Plan that shows the two lakes of Lirima, their length width and depth, with the canals that are necessary to build to connect the water of both lakes].

12. Ramón Joffré, ‘Ilustrar la urbe’ (see note 6), 72.

NOTES AND REFERENCES

1. This abstract is based on my doctoral thesis, ‘The Development and Publishing History of School Atlases and British Geography, c.1880–c.1930’, supervised by Charles W. J. Withers, University of Edinburgh, David Finkelstein, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and Christopher Fleet, National Library of Scotland (NLS), with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the NLS. Sources for the dissertation are in the NLS (including Bartholomew archive); the British Library (including the Macmillan & Co. archive); the Bodleian Library (including the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Section E Geography) archive); the University of Edinburgh Library (including the T. Nelson & Sons archive); the Royal Geographical Society (including the G. Philip and Son's archive), and the National Archives of Scotland.

2. W. C. Bridgeman, ‘Memorandum on the Method of Procedure of the Books and Apparatus Sub-committee’, 21 April, 1899 (London Metropolitan Archives, SBL 188).

3. The Geographical Association was formed in 1893 at Oxford and was concerned primarily with the promotion of school geography. See W. G. V. Baldin, The Geographical Association: The First Hundred Years, 1893–1993 (Sheffield, Geographical Association, 1993).

4. G. Philip, Letter to J. T. Masterman, 17 March, 1899 (GA archive, Sheffield, correspondence file, 8).

5. Philips’ London School Board Atlas (London, George Philip & Son, 1900), ii.

6. Ibid.

7. J. S. Keltie, ‘Address to the geographical section of the British Association’, Scottish Geographical Journal 13 (1897): 449–66, at 451.

8. Ibid.

9. The Systematic Atlas (London, George Philip & Son, 1895).

10. ‘Paratextual’ features include introductory notes, titles, indexes, prefaces etc. For more on this, see R. J. Mayhew, ‘Materialist hermeneutics, textuality and the history of geography: print spaces in British geography, c.1500–c.1900’, Journal of Historical Geography 331 (2007): 466–88.

11. The Systematic Atlas (see note 9), vi.