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Author : Ronald Vere Tooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008214020
Author : I. Norwich,Pam Kolbe,Jeffrey C. Stone
Publisher : Terra Nova
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020173204
Over the course of forty years, Oscar Norwich accumulated the world's greatest private collection of African maps. This catalog comprises a record of foreign knowledge of the continent from the "Age of Exploration" to modern times, and demonstrates how the rest of the world was quick to learn the shape of the African continent but slow to grasp the realities of its interior. From the fabulous creatures depicted on early maps to the blank "regions unknown" of later ones, from those that depicted the kingdom of the legendary Prester John to maps as late as the 19th century that still featured the imaginary Mountains of Kong, this collection documents a long and troubled history of developing knowledge of the continent. Each map is illustrated and carefully described, including bibliographical citations. Originally published in 1983, the book has been revised and edited by Jeffrey Stone for this second edition.
Author : Donald Hodson,Ronald Vere Tooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : 0845117017
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Kunstpedia Foundation
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789081654210
Author : Ieuan Ll Griffiths
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : 0415054885
The Atlas of African Affairs is divided into five sections dealing with environmental, historical, political and economic issues and with Southern Africa. Throughout, the book presents an interdisciplinary, integrated perspective on African affairs. Most of the chapters deal with continent-wide themes and are illustrated by maps of Africa as a whole drawn to a standardised outline of the same map projection and scale. Other chapters, often by way of example, discuss parts of the continent or individual countries and are illustrated with appropriate maps. The basic format of integrated text and maps is supplemented by guides to further reading at the end of each section as well as a series of detailed statistical tables at the end of the book.
Author : John McIlwaine
Publisher : Zell
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015040550405
Author : Alfred Kagan,Atoma Batoma
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442242616
This third edition of the Reference Guide to Africa explains the most important resources for the study of the continent of Africa. It contains a general sources section and a larger disciplinary oriented section. All sources are annotated. A new edition is sorely needed since the last edition was published nine years ago. The previous editions have been successfully used in research libraries worldwide since 1999, and it has been used to teach several African studies research courses. The book provides an orientation for researching almost any topic in the arts, humanities and social sciences concerning the continent of Africa, and all of its countries and ethnic groups. The first part explains and lists portals, databases, bibliographies, indexes, guides, encyclopedias, country sources, biography, primary sources, government publications, and statistics. The second part presents 16 subject-oriented chapters, mostly in the arts, humanities and social sciences, from agriculture and food security to women studies. It covers sources that broadly cover the continent, or in some cases only North Africa (and the Middle East). It generally excludes sources limited to one country or region of Africa, except for North Africa because of the nature of the literature. One-third of the sources in this edition are new, and nearly half of them are available in electronic format. There are author/title and subject indexes. This unique work is intended for students, teachers, librarians, and researchers. It likely will be used most by reference librarians and teachers for students in high school through graduate studies. It will also be used independently by undergraduate and graduate students. It can be used to answer simple reference questions, provide the resources for an undergraduate paper, or for comprehensive work by advanced students and researchers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004349360
This volume focuses on how the conceptual and performative aspects of science connect it in important ways with literary discourses. It addresses the reception of science by authors of literature, as well as how ‘mimesis’ intersects with scientific discourse.
Author : Jennifer Beningfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134213542
An investigation into the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa, principally during the apartheid years, and the effects of these physical and conceptual barriers on the land. In contrast to the weight of literature focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, the focus of this book includes the spatial, political and cultural landscape practices of the apartheid government and also refers to contemporary work done in Australia, England and the US. It probes the uncertainty and ambiguity of identities and cultures in post-apartheid society in order to gain a deep understanding of the history that individuals and society now confront. Drawing on a wealth of research materials including literature, maps, newspapers, monuments, architectural drawings, government legislation, tourist brochures, political writing and oral histories, this book is well illustrated throughout and is a unique commentary on the spatial politics of a time of enormous change.
Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Avery
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592407804
Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226605715
“In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of ‘cartography’ to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps.” —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 Maps Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same. “[An] intellectually bracing and marvellously provocative account of how the mythical ideal of cartography developed over time and, in the process, distorted our understanding of maps.” —Times Higher Education “Cartography: The Ideal and Its History offers both a sharp critique of current practice and a call to reorient the field of map studies. A landmark contribution.” —Kären Wigen, coeditor of Time in Maps
Author : Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788855662
One of the greatest stories of world exploration ever told. By the late eighteenth century, the river Niger was a 2,000-year-old two-part geographical problem. Solving it would advance European knowledge of Africa, provide a route to commercial opportunity and help eradicate the evil of slavery. Mungo Park achieved lasting fame in 1796 by solving the first part of the Niger problem – which way did the river run? Park died in 1806, in circumstances which are still uncertain, in failing to solve the second – where did the Niger end? Numerous expeditions explored the river in the decades following Park's death, but not until 1830 was its final course revealed following in-the-field exploration. By then, however, the Niger problem had been solved by 'armchair geographers' who had never even visited Africa. Majestic River celebrates Mungo Park's achievements and illuminates his rich afterlife – how and why he was commemorated long after his death. It is also the thrilling story of the many expeditions that sought to determine the Niger's course and the facts of Park's disappearance, as well as a biography of the Niger itself as the river slowly took shape in the European imagination.
Author : Edward Riou
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa : Cape)
ISBN : 0620144556
Author : Thomas Foster Earle,K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521815827
This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Association of Research Libr
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Acquisition of foreign publications
ISBN : UOM:39015036864257
