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Monmonier shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography--the visual, two-dimensional organization of... Læs mere
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Examining the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment.
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In this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey... Læs mere
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When sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, names like Jap Valley, California,... Læs mere
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Explains how maps can tell where to anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be misleading. The text considers that although it is important to... Læs mere
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From Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world... Læs mere
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In the 19th century, Americans began to use maps in extraordinary new ways. Medical men mapped diseases to understand epidemics,... Læs mere
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An introduction to the history of cartography, this title charts the links between maps and history. It includes illustrations made using Geographical Information Systems which illuminate the many ways in which various human cultures have interpreted spatial relationships.
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The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Richard Talbert provides a long-overdue reinterpretation and... Læs mere
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Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the connections between geography and cartography during the Middle Ages.... Læs mere
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When Isabella's friend disappears, she volunteers to guide thesearch party. As a mapmaker's daughter, she's equipped with elaborateink maps and knowledge of the stars, eager to... Læs mere