Charting the New World was the task of American surveyors and European mapmakers. This is a 21st-century look at the craftmanship and importance of 18th-century mapmaking that reveals for st... Read allCharting the New World was the task of American surveyors and European mapmakers. This is a 21st-century look at the craftmanship and importance of 18th-century mapmaking that reveals for student historians the geography of a rapidly changing world.Charting the New World was the task of American surveyors and European mapmakers. This is a 21st-century look at the craftmanship and importance of 18th-century mapmaking that reveals for student historians the geography of a rapidly changing world.