Mapping the Holy Land

The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine

AvBruno Schelhaas,Jutta Faehndrich

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology - the authors explore the complex cultural, cartographic and technical processes that shaped and determined the resulting maps of the region. Making full use of newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, Mapping the Holy Land is essential reading for cartographers, historical geographers, historians of mapmaking, and for all those with an interest in the Holy Land and the history of Palestine.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-05-09
Mått:190 x 248 x 22 mm
Vikt:820 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Tauris Historical Geographical Series
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781784534547

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Haim Goren is Professor of Historical Geography, Tel Hai College, Israel. He has a longstanding interest in the Holy Land, European activity in Ottoman Palestine and the Near East, and the history of the modern scientific study of these regions. He is the author of Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East (2011) and (with E.Dolev and Y. Sheffy) Palestine and the First World War: New Perspectives (2014), both published by I.B.Tauris.Bruno Schelhaas is Head of the Archive for Geography, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography,Leibniz, Germany. His interests include the history of geography and cartography, historical geography and archival science.Jutta Faehndrich is a researcher with the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, where her research focus is on the history of cartography, European cultural history, and cultures of memory.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceList of illustrations1. Introduction: Mapping the Holy Land2 Edward Robinson, Eli Smith and the cartography of Berghaus and Kiepert 3. The Land and the Map: C.W.M. van de Velde’s Map of the Holy Land 4. August Petermann’s Palestine mapsNotesArchival sourcesBibliographyIndex