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Theater of the World

Author : Thomas Reinertsen Berg
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316450782
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Theater of the World written by Thomas Reinertsen Berg and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated full-color history of mapmaking across centuries -- a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers. Theater of the World offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, using the visual representation of the world through time to tell a new story about world history and the men who made it. Thomas Reinertsen Berg takes us all the way from the mysterious symbols of the Stone Age to Google Earth, exploring how the ability to envision what the world looked like developed hand in hand with worldwide exploration. Along the way, we meet visionary geographers and heroic explorers along with other unknown heroes of the map-making world, both ancient and modern. And the stunning visual material allows us to witness the extraordinary breadth of this history with our own eyes.

Cartography

Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022660568X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Cartography written by Matthew H. Edney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.

The Discovery of the Sea

Author : John Horace Parry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520042377
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of the Sea written by John Horace Parry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who was First?

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618663910
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Who was First? written by Russell Freedman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.

Remoteness Reconsidered

Author : Christopher Rossi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132571
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Remoteness Reconsidered written by Christopher Rossi and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the margin IS the center, perspectives shift

Sixteenth Century North America

Author : Carl Ortwin Sauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520313151
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Sixteenth Century North America written by Carl Ortwin Sauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes

Author : Edward Luther Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes written by Edward Luther Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the World in 12 Maps

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143126024
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book A History of the World in 12 Maps written by Jerry Brotton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the warrior to plan his campaigns and the propagandist to boost his cause… rich and beautiful.” – Wall Street Journal Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by considering it in all its nuances and omissions, we can better understand the world that produced it. Although the way we map our surroundings is more precise than ever before, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been. Readers of this beautifully illustrated and masterfully argued book will never look at a map in quite the same way again. “A fascinating and panoramic new history of the cartographer’s art.” – The Guardian “The intellectual background to these images is conveyed with beguiling erudition…. There is nothing more subversive than a map.” – The Spectator “A mesmerizing and beautifully illustrated book.” —The Telegraph

The French Régime in Wisconsin and the Northwest

Author : Louise Phelps Kellogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The French Régime in Wisconsin and the Northwest written by Louise Phelps Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Terrestrial & Celestial Globes

Author : Edward Luther Stevenson
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Terrestrial & Celestial Globes written by Edward Luther Stevenson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents one of the very first detailed and comprehensive historical treatises on globes terrestrial and celestial in English language since the numerous works published before its appearance tended to give only a very general consideration to the uses of globes, including a reference to their important structural features, and to the problems geographical and astronomical in the solution of which they may be counted of service. The aim of this study was to treat the subject historically, beginning with the earliest references to the belief in a spherical earth and a spherical firmament encircling it, and it was inspired by the author's hope that the preliminary study may lead to a number of independent and thorough investigations of important individual examples, to the end of clearly setting forth their great documentary value. Volume 1: Terrestrial Globes in Antiquity Celestial Globes in Antiquity Globes Constructed by the Arabs Terrestrial and Celestial Globes in the Christian Middle Ages Globes Constructed in the Early Years of the Great Geographical Discoveries Globes of the Early Sixteenth Century Globes of the Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century Globes and Globe Makers of the Third Quarter of the Sixteenth Century Globes and Globe Makers of the Last Quarter of the Sixteenth Century Volume 2: Globes and Globe Makers of the Early Seventeenth Century. The Dutch Scientific Masters and Their Preeminent Leadership Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century – from Delisle to Ferguson Globes and Globe Makers of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century The Technic of Globe Construction – Materials and Methods

Geographical Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Geographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol I

Author : Edward Luther Stevenson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 375242768X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol I written by Edward Luther Stevenson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol I by Edward Luther Stevenson

Unto a Good Land

Author : David Edwin Harrell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802829443
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Unto a Good Land written by David Edwin Harrell and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the American people, from the first contacts between Europeans and North America's native inhabitants, through the creation of a modern nation, to the standing of the United States as a world power. Written by a team of distinguished historians led by David Edwin Harrell, Jr. and Edwin S. Gaustad, this textbook shows how grasping the uniqueness of the "American experiment" depends on understanding the role of religion as well as social, cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping U.S. history. A common shortcoming of most United States history textbooks is that while, in recent decades, they have expanded their coverage of social and cultural history, they still tend to shortchange the role of religious ideas, practices, and movements in the American past. Unto a Good Land addresses this shortcoming in a balanced way. The authors recognize that religion is only one of many factors that have influenced our past, one, however, that has often been neglected in textbook accounts. This volume gives religion its appropriate place in the story. - Publisher.

A Big History of North America

Author : Kevin Jon Fernlund
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274773
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book A Big History of North America written by Kevin Jon Fernlund and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special relationship between the United Kingdom, an established and secure power, and the United States, a rising one, began after the War of 1812, as the former enemies sought accommodation with, rather than the annihilation of, one another. At the same time, Mexico, also a rising power, was not so fortunate. Its relationship with Spain, an established but declining power, turned hostile with Spain’s final exit from North America after Mexico’s War of Independence, leaving its former colony isolated, internally unstable, and vulnerable to external attack. Significantly, Mexico posed little threat to its northern neighbor. By the third decade of the eighteenth century, then, the fate of North America was largely discernable. Nevertheless, the three-century journey to get to this point had been anything but predictable. The United States’ rise as a regional power was very much conditioned by constantly shifting transcontinental, transpacific, and above all transatlantic factors, all of which influenced North America’s three interactive cultural spheres: the Indigenous, the Hispano, and the Anglo. And while the United States profoundly shaped the history of Canada and Mexico, so, too, did these two transcontinental countries likewise shape the course of U.S. history. In this ground-breaking work, Kevin Fernlund shows us that any society’s social development is directly related to its own social power and, just as crucially, to the protective extension or destructive intrusion of the social power of other societies.

Wilderness

Author : Rutherford Hayes Platt
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Wilderness written by Rutherford Hayes Platt and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1973 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Putting "America" on the Map

Author : Seymour I. Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Putting "America" on the Map written by Seymour I. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1507 the Waldseemuller World Map was created. It was the first time a map included the continental landmasses in the Western Hemisphere. The name "America" was inserted on the southern continent. Since then it has been surrounded by many intrigues.

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes (Vol. 1&2)

Author : Edward Luther Stevenson
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Terrestrial and Celestial Globes (Vol. 1&2) written by Edward Luther Stevenson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents one of the very first detailed and comprehensive historical treatises on globes terrestrial and celestial in English language since the numerous works published before its appearance tended to give only a very general consideration to the uses of globes, including a reference to their important structural features, and to the problems geographical and astronomical in the solution of which they may be counted of service. The aim of this study was to treat the subject historically, beginning with the earliest references to the belief in a spherical earth and a spherical firmament encircling it, and it was inspired by the author's hope that the preliminary study may lead to a number of independent and thorough investigations of important individual examples, to the end of clearly setting forth their great documentary value._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Terrestrial Globes in Antiquity_x000D_ Celestial Globes in Antiquity_x000D_ Globes Constructed by the Arabs_x000D_ Terrestrial and Celestial Globes in the Christian Middle Ages_x000D_ Globes Constructed in the Early Years of the Great Geographical Discoveries_x000D_ Globes of the Early Sixteenth Century_x000D_ Globes of the Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the Third Quarter of the Sixteenth Century_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the Last Quarter of the Sixteenth Century_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the Early Seventeenth Century. The Dutch Scientific Masters and Their Preeminent Leadership_x000D_ Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century – from Delisle to Ferguson_x000D_ Globes and Globe Makers of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century_x000D_ The Technic of Globe Construction – Materials and Methods