Map: Detail, L’Amérique, divisée selon l’étendu de ses principales parties
(America, divided according to the extent of its principal parts)
Date: 1698/1705
Author: Nicholas De Fer
Details: Cartographic colonization and imperial appropriation of the beaver as assembly line worker, industrious engineer, and policing architect, in detail of Nicholas de Fer's 1698 map "L’Amérique."