Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America: By Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4696-5504-8 (paper); 978-1-4696-5503-1 (cloth). Pp. [xx], 259, illus. US $24.95 (paper); US $90.00 (cloth)

Several revealing maps appear toward the end of Jeffrey Erbig's fascinating inquiry into imperial efforts to demarcate the border between Portuguese and Spanish South America. Border practices followed this new mode of border thinking, and not only for Europeans. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America: By Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. [Extracted from the article]