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Maps in Newspapers
Approaches of Study and Practices in Portraying War since 19th Century
Häftad, 2019
1277 kr
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Maps in newspapers generated many discussions among cartographers and geographers working from different approaches and theoretical backgrounds. This work examines these maps from a historiographical as well as a historical perspective. It considers three main questions, namely how maps in the …
Maps of the Moon
Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age
Häftad, 2019
1277 kr
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When does a depiction of the moon become a lunar map? This publication addresses this question from theoretical and historical standpoints. It is argued that moon maps are of crucial importance to the history of cartography, for they challenge established notions of what a map is, how it functions, …
Mapping Mountains
Häftad, 2020
1277 kr
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Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of …
Mapping Travel
The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps
Av Jordana Dym
Häftad, 2021
1277 kr
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More often than not, readers of travel narratives can expect to find at least one map—if not several—showing, as English privateer William Dampier wrote, “the Course of the Voyage,” that is, where the author-traveler went and, implicitly, a sense of what was seen and experienced. Dampier used a …
Colours on East Asian Maps
Their Use and Materiality in China, Japan and Korea between the Mid-17th and Early 20th Century
Häftad, 2023
1210 kr
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With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Colour is an important …
Sketch Maps: Drawing the Geographical Imagination
Av Carla Lois
Häftad, 2023
1119 kr
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Sketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly naïve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledge and …
Playing with Maps: Cartographic Games in Western Culture
Av Adrian Seville, Thierry Depaulis m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1143 kr
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This is the first serious book wholly devoted to games based on maps. The authors are experts in their respective fields: board games, playing cards and dissected puzzles. They bring an informed historical approach to the development and diffusion of these games up to about the beginning of the …
Mapping Insularity: A Visual History of Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
Häftad, 2024
1250 kr
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What lies behind an island? Is an island just a piece of land surrounded by water? Or is it from a cultural, symbolic, and even geographical perspective much more than that? Considering the symbolic nature of islands as a longue durée and through the analysis of maps, texts, and historical …
Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”
Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations
Häftad, 2025
1204 kr
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The apparently centuries-old field of “the history of cartography” was invented after 1950 through incomplete historiographies by leading map historians. This monograph uses an empirically grounded analysis of the ways in which early maps have been systematically studied since the early 1800s to …
Mining Maps and Enlightenment in the Andes
Häftad, 2026
1146 kr
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Mining loomed large in colonial Andean society. In the eighteenth century, projects to reform existing mines and establish new ones were increasingly accompanied and shaped by mapping. Numerous mining maps from the colonial Andes are preserved in archival collections. This study examines the roles …
