How Spain and Portugal Invented Modern Cartography

Dr. Patricia Seed is a professor of history at Rice University and a visiting scholar at Stanford's Center for Latin American Studies. Her books include To Love, Honor and Obey in Colonial Mexico (1992), and the ground-breaking comparative studies, Ceremonies of Possession in Europe´s Conquest of the New World (1995) and American Pentimento (2001), in which she contrasts English and Spanish approaches to the management of indigenous peoples.