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Ground Truth
The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems
Av John Pickles
Häftad, 1995
648 kr
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Over the past two decades, techniques for advanced computing and enhanced imaging have transformed the ways planners, geographers, surveyors, and others think about and visualize the places, regions, and peoples of the earth. Ground Truth is the first book to explicitly address the role of …
Power of Maps
Av Denis Wood
Häftad, 1992
380 kr
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This volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By …
Writing Women and Space
Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies
Häftad, 1994
366 kr
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Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and …
Travel, Gender, and Imperialism
Mary Kingsley and West Africa
Av Alison Blunt
Häftad, 1994
362 kr
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Studies of women travel writers have ranged from anecdotal and celebratory accounts to more critical essays on imperialism or the textualization of difference. This book does more. Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel writer and critic of the Crown Colony …
Place of Music
Av Andrew Leyshon, David Matless m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
713 kr
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Music is omnipresent in human society, but its language can no longer be regarded as transcendent or universal. Like other art forms, music is produced and consumed within complex economic, cultural, and political frameworks in different places and at different historical moments. Taking an …
Spaces of Modernity
London's Geographies 1680-1780
Av Miles Ogborn
Häftad, 1998
713 kr
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From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Register Office, this book examines the identities, practices, and power relations of the modern city as they emerged within and transformed the geographies …
