Historical Atlases

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226300722
Total Pages : 628 pages
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Book Synopsis Historical Atlases by : Walter Goffart

Download or read book Historical Atlases written by Walter Goffart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. The first thorough review of the source material, Historical Atlases traces how these collections of "maps for history"—maps whose sole purpose was to illustrate some historical moment or scene—came into being. Beginning in the sixteenth century, and continuing down to the late nineteenth, Walter Goffart discusses milestones in the origins of historical atlases as well as individual maps illustrating historical events in alternating, paired chapters. He focuses on maps of the medieval period because the development of maps for history hinged particularly on portrayals of this segment of the postclassical, "modern" past. Goffart concludes the book with a detailed catalogue of more than 700 historical maps and atlases produced from 1570 to 1870. Historical Atlases will immediately take its place as the single most important reference on its subject. Historians of cartography, medievalists, and anyone seriously interested in the role of maps in portraying history will find it invaluable.

A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress

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Book Synopsis A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress by : Library of Congress. Map Division

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Mapping the Nation

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ISBN 13 : 0226740706
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books, in the English, French, Spanish, and Italian Languages

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Map Worlds

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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554589347
Total Pages : 528 pages
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Catalogue

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Total Pages : 466 pages
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Catalogue of Books in All Classes of Literature

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A Catalog of Books

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Total Pages : 460 pages
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Unofficial Ancestry.com Workbook

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 144034910X
Total Pages : 193 pages
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Mapping Europe's Borderlands

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ISBN 13 : 0226744256
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Mapping Europe's Borderlands written by Steven Seegel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and important new book. Mapping Europe’s Borderlands takes the familiar problems of state and nation building in eastern Europe and presents them through an entirely new prism, that of cartography and cartographers. Drawing from sources in eleven languages, including military, historical-pedagogical, and ethnographic maps, as well as geographic texts and related cartographic literature, Seegel explores the role of maps and mapmakers in the East Central European borderlands from the Enlightenment to the Treaty of Versailles. For example, Seegel explains how Russia used cartography in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and, later, formed its geography society as a cover for gathering intelligence. He also explains the importance of maps to the formation of identities and institutions in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania, as well as in Russia. Seegel concludes with a consideration of the impact of cartographers’ regional and socioeconomic backgrounds, educations, families, career options, and available language choices.

Catalogue of the Michigan State Library

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Total Pages : 456 pages
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Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1881-2

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Total Pages : 454 pages
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Catalogue

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"Realms of Gold"

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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691958
Total Pages : 648 pages
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Download or read book "Realms of Gold" written by American Philosophical Society and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1991 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a catalog of the rich & extensive collection of maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Soc. (APS) in Philadelphia. it contains information on some 1,750 printed maps, over 1,000 manuscript maps, 136 atlases, two globes, & one model. Murphy Smith began this project in 1985 shortly after he retired from his long career as Associate Librarian of the Society, when Librarian Edward C. Carter II named him Andrew W. Mellon Sr. Research Fellow. Smith came to be recognized as one of the most knowledgeable & helpful historical RCRA librarians in the country. Illustrations.

A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia

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Total Pages : 1144 pages
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Spatial Turns

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042030011
Total Pages : 474 pages
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Download or read book Spatial Turns written by Jaimey Fisher and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "spatial turns" signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: "Mapping Spaces" addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; "Spaces of the Urban" takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; "Spaces of Encounter" considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and "Visualized Spaces" concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.