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Author | : J. B. Harley |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2002-10-03 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Jennifer Jaye Price |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999-04-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Download Flight Maps:adventures With Nature In Modern America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A quirky, brilliant debut book that explores the evolution of our relationship to nature and the ways in which we attach meaning to it today. "Flight Maps" should find its place on any bookshelf with the likes of David Quammen and John McPhee.
Author | : John Brian Harley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1728 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 9780226534695 |
Download The History of Cartography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : J. B. Harley |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2002-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801870903 |
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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.
Author | : Denis Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
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The authors demonstrate that maps of the natural, physical world are just as culturally and socially constructed as any map of property or territory.
Author | : Arthur Howard Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226722818 |
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An introduction to a theory of cartography, attempting clear notions of the characteristics and processes by which a map acquires meaning from its maker and evokes meaning in its user
Author | : S. Max Edelson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674978994 |
Download The New Map of Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions before the Revolution.
Author | : John Harwood Andrews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Denis Wood |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2010-04-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 160623708X |
Download Rethinking the Power of Maps Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of mapmaking and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art.
Author | : Mirela Altic |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2022-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022679119X |
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Analyzing more than 150 historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits’ significant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World. In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits. The Society’s goal was to revitalize the faith of Catholics and to evangelize to non-Catholics through charity, education, and missionary work. By the end of the century, Jesuit missionaries were sent all over the world, including to South America. In addition to performing missionary and humanitarian work, Jesuits also served as cartographers and explorers under the auspices of the Spanish, Portuguese, and French crowns as they ventured into remote areas to find and evangelize to native populations. In Encounters in the New World, Mirela Altic analyzes more than 150 of their maps, most of which have never previously been published. She traces the Jesuit contribution to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World into the post-suppression period, placing it in the context of their worldwide undertakings in the fields of science and art. Altic’s analysis also shows the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into the Jesuit maps, effectively making them an expression of cross-cultural communication—even as they were tools of colonial expansion. This ambiguity, she reveals, reflects the complex relationship between missions, knowledge, and empire. Far more than just a physical survey of unknown space, Jesuit mapping of the New World was in fact the most important link to enable an exchange of ideas and cultural concepts between the Old World and the New.