In this episode of the Clements Bookworm, Past Fellows Chet Van Duzer and Danny Zborover discuss their research on the Clements Library's Hacke Atlas—a late 17th century manuscript atlas drawn from captured Spanish sea charts and one of multiple copies produced by English mapmaker William Hacke. Van Duzer will explain indications of the locations of shipwrecks in Hacke Atlases and how information about the treasure on those wrecks was later added. Zborover shares what the Hacke Atlas can tell us about the deep roots of entanglements between the Chontal Indigenous people in southern Mexico, and English, French, and Dutch pirates.
Books and resources discussed in the program are listed at https://conta.cc/3Cnc6tM
The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table.
This episode was generously sponsored by Tom Root in celebration of Corie Root's birthday.
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