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The History of Cartography, Volume 4

Matthew H. Edney,Mary Sponberg Pedley
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Author : Matthew H. Edney,Mary Sponberg Pedley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 1920 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226339221

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Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.

The History of Cartography

John Brian Harley,David Woodward,Mark S. Monmonier
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Author : John Brian Harley,David Woodward,Mark S. Monmonier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1728 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0226534693

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When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark History of Cartography series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J.B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the larger renaissance in map studies that the series would inspire. But as the renown of the series and the comprehensiveness and acuity of the present volume demonstrate, the history of cartography has proven to be unexpectedly fertile ground.--Amazon.com.

Cartography

Matthew H. Edney
Cartography Book PDF

Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226605715

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“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

The World Through Maps

John R. Short
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Author : John R. Short
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 1552978117

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An illustrated history of maps and mapmaking, including reproductions of 200 antique maps.

Mapping the World

Ralph E. Ehrenberg
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Author : Ralph E. Ehrenberg
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062882108

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"This book highlights more than a hundred maps from every era and every part of the world. Organized chronologically, they display an astonishing variety of cartographic styles and techniques. They range from priceless artistic masterworks like the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, the first to use the name "America, " to such practical artifacts as a Polynesian stick chart, a creation of bent twigs, seashells, and coconut palms that was nevertheless capable of guiding an outrigger canoe safely across thousands of miles of trackless and seemingly endless ocean. Some, like the portolans, or sea charts, of the Age of Discovery, were closely guarded state secrets that shaped the rise and fall of empires; others circulated widely and showed such fabled routes as the Silk Road across western Asia and the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails that opened up the American West."--Jacket.

Mapping the Nation

Susan Schulten
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Author : Susan Schulten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226740706

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“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.

Medieval Maps

P. D. A. Harvey
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Author : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UVA:X002737091

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Professor Harvey traces the development of western mapmaking from the early Middle Ages to the first printed maps of the late 15th century, discussing their traditions, artistic and technical aspects, and uses.

Map Worlds

Will C. van den Hoonaard
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Author : Will C. van den Hoonaard
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781554589340

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Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and outlines the challenges they face in their careers. Map Worlds explores women as colourists in early times, describes the major houses of cartographic production, and delves into the economic function of intermarriages among cartographic houses and families. It relates how in later centuries, working from the margins, women produced maps to record painful tribal memories or sought to remedy social injustices. Much later, one woman so changed the way we think about continents that the shift has been likened to the Copernican revolution. Other women created order and wonder about the lunar landscape, and still others turned the art and science of making maps inside out, exposing the hidden, unconscious, and subliminal “text” of maps. Shared by all these map-makers are themes of social justice and making maps work for the betterment of humanity.

History of Military Cartography

Elri Liebenberg,Imre Josef Demhardt,Soetkin Vervust
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Author : Elri Liebenberg,Imre Josef Demhardt,Soetkin Vervust
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319252445

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History of Military Cartography by Elri Liebenberg,Imre Josef Demhardt,Soetkin Vervust Pdf

This volume gathers 19 papers first presented at the 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, which took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium on 2-5 December 2014. The overall conference theme was 'Cartography in Times of War and Peace', but preference was given to papers dealing with the military cartography of the First World War (1914-1918). The papers are classified by period and regional sub-theme, i.e. Military Cartography from the 18th to the 20th century; WW I Cartography in Belgium, Central Europe, etc.

The New Nature of Maps

J. B. Harley
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Author : J. B. Harley
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0801870909

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In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

Jerry Brotton
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Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781846145704

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Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series 'Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession'. Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world - whether the Jerusalem-centred Christian perspective of the 14th century Hereford Mappa Mundi or the Peters projection of the 1970s which aimed to give due weight to 'the third world'. Although the way we map our surroundings is once more changing dramatically, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been - but that they continue to make arguments and propositions about the world, and to recreate, shape and mediate our view of it. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.

Mapping Society

Laura Vaughan
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Author : Laura Vaughan
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353060

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From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities. The book covers themes such as the use of visual rhetoric to change public opinion, the evolution of sociology as an academic practice, changing attitudes to physical disorder, and the complexity of segregation as an urban phenomenon. While the focus is on historical maps, the narrative carries the discussion of the spatial dimensions of social cartography forward to the present day, showing how disciplines such as public health, crime science, and urban planning, chart spatial data in their current practice. Containing examples of space syntax analysis alongside full colour maps and photographs, this volume will appeal to all those interested in the long-term forces that shape how people live in cities.

Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Richard J. A. Talbert,Richard Watson Unger
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Author : Richard J. A. Talbert,Richard Watson Unger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004166639

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Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Richard J. A. Talbert,Richard Watson Unger Pdf

There was no sharp break between classical and medieval map making. Contributions by thirteen scholars offer fresh insight that demonstrates continuity and adaptation over the long term. This work reflects current thinking in the history of cartography and opens new directions for the future.

Cartographies of Time

Daniel Rosenberg,Anthony Grafton
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Author : Daniel Rosenberg,Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781616891725

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Cartographies of Time by Daniel Rosenberg,Anthony Grafton Pdf

Our critically acclaimed smash hit Cartographies of Time is now available in paperback. In this first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time, authors Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton have crafted a lively history featuring fanciful characters and unexpected twists and turns. From medieval manuscripts to websites, Cartographies of Time features a wide variety of timelines that in their own unique ways, curving, crossing, branching, defy conventional thinking about the form. A fifty-four-foot-long timeline from 1753 is mounted on a scroll and encased in a protective box. Another timeline uses the different parts of the human body to show the genealogies of Jesus Christ and the rulers of Saxony. Ladders created by missionaries in eighteenth-century Oregon illustrate Bible stories in a vertical format to convert Native Americans. Also included is the April 1912 Marconi North Atlantic Communication chart, which tracked ships, including the Titanic, at points in time rather than by their geographic location, alongside little-known works by famous figures, including a historical chronology by the mapmaker Gerardus Mercator and a chronological board game patented by Mark Twain. Presented in a lavishly illustrated edition, Cartographies of Time is a revelation to anyone interested in the role visual forms have played in our evolving conception of history

100 Maps

John O. E. Clark
100 Maps Book PDF

Author : John O. E. Clark
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402728853

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Presents a chronological overview of the history of cartography, from the earliest maps of prehistory to the engraved maps of the seventeenth century and beyond. Includes illustrations.