Mackenzie Cooley
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Mackenzie Cooley
@mackenziecooley.bsky.social
Renaissance woman by profession. Associate Professor
@HamiltonCollege. Director of the New World Nature Project https://mackenzie-cooley.com
The first two chapters - by Maria Portuondo and Joe Dennis - show the making of two different guidelines.
August 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
We go back in time with @lxslcs.bsky.social's elegant chapter on the precedents for the guidelines, "Imperial Territorial Data before the Age of Print: “Illustrated Guidelines.”
August 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A mini-intro to the first part of our book, "Knowing an Empire" with @leverpress.bsky.social

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August 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" unveils how these two vast empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds in the process of empire-building.

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August 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Knowing the Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue with @leverpress.bsky.social is now in proofs. The big work is already done. Now we just need to make sure the is are dotted, the ts crossed, and tails pinned to the now-extinct Iberian cebros!
March 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Good morning, bsky folks. It's time to read about old things again. Speculation? Check. Alchemy? Check. Shoot me an email if you'd like to join this workshop with Wenrui Zhao and Vera Keller on February 24th.
February 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM