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Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography
This folded map (890mm x 1000mm) pictorially illustrates the
history of Britain's Railways up to its previous publication date
of 1974. Drawn by Laurence Richardson and last published in 1974 by
Collins Bartholomew as a fold up map. Now re-digitized and
re-published by Mapseeker in association with the Collins
Bartholomew Archive, the map covers all of England, Wales, Scotland
and Ireland with various historical events, progress, iconic steam
locomotives, and heritage railways illustrated pictorially in the
form of eye catching vignettes. The map is surrounded by the crests
of many of the Railway Companies that were founded over time until
they were consumed under the Amalgamation of 1923.
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and
exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of
intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry -
products of the complex, and often contested, relationships between
authors and editors, publishers and printers. These books
captivated the reading public and played a vital role in creating
new geographical truths. In that age of global wonder and of
expanding empires, there was no publisher more renowned for its
travel books than the House of John Murray. Drawing on detailed
examination of the John Murray Archive of manuscripts, images, and
the firm's correspondence with its many authors - a list that
included such illustrious explorers and scientists as Charles
Darwin and Charles Lyell, and literary giants like Jane Austen,
Byron, and Sir Walter Scott - Travels into Print considers how
journeys of exploration became published accounts and how travelers
sought to demonstrate the faithfulness of their written testimony
and to secure their personal credibility. This fascinating study in
historical geography and book history takes modern readers on a
journey into the nature of exploration, the production of authority
in published travel narratives, and the creation of geographical
authorship - a journey bound together by the unifying force of a
world-leading publisher.
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and
they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From
the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google
Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and
realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy
to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and
non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in
combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the
Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world
from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. Along
the way are pocket maps of dragons, Mars, murders and more, with
plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the route. From the
bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is
a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we
got there and where we're going.
Exploring the creation, transformation, and imagination of Russian
space as a lens through which to understand Russia's development
over the centuries, this volume makes an important contribution to
Russian studies and the "new spatial history." It considers aspects
of the relationship between place and power in Russia from the
local level to the national and from the eighteenth century through
the present. Essays include: Melissa K. Stockdale, "What is a
Fatherland? Changing Notions of Duty, Rights and Belonging in
Russia"; Mark Bassin, "Nationhood, Natural Regions, Mestorazvitie:
Environmental Discourses in Classic Eurasianism"; John Randolph,
"Russian Route: The Politics of the Petersburg-Moscow Road,
1700-1800"; Richard Stites, "On the Dance Floor: Royal Power,
Class, and Nationality in Servile Russia"; Patricia Herlihy, "Ab
Oriente ad Ultimum Oriente: Eugen Scuyler, Russia and Central
Asia"; Robert Argenbright, "Soviet Agitational Vehicles:
Colonization from Place to Place"; Christopher Ely, "Street Space
and Political Culture under Alexander II"; Sergei Zhuk, "Unmaking
the Sacred Landscape of Orthodox Russia: Religious Pluralism,
Identity Crisis, and Religious Politics on the Ukrainian
Borderlands of the late Russian Empire"; Cathy A. Frierson,
"Filling in the Map for Vologda's Post-Soviet Identity"; and Lisa
A, "Kirschenbaum, Place, Memory and the Politics of Identity:
Historical Buildings and Street Names in Leningrad-St. Petersburg."
In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the "Barrington
Atlas" re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from
the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North
Africa. It spans the territory of more than 75 modern countries.
Its large format (13 1/4 x 18 in. or 33.7 x 46.4 cm) has been
custom-designed by the leading cartographic supplier, MapQuest.com,
Inc., and is unrivaled for range, clarity, and detail. Over 70
experts, aided by an equal number of consultants, have worked from
satellite-generated aeronautical charts to return the modern
landscape to its ancient appearance, and to mark ancient names and
features in accordance with the most up-to-date historical
scholarship and archaeological discoveries. Chronologically, the
Barrington Atlas spans archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire, and
no more than two standard scales (1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000) are
used to represent most regions.
Since the 1870s, all attempts to map the classical world
comprehensively have failed. The "Barrington Atlas" has finally
achieved that elusive and challenging goal. It began in 1988 at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, under the direction of
the distinguished ancient historian Richard Talbert, and has been
developed with approximately $4.5 million in funding support.
The resulting "Barrington Atlas" is a reference work of
permanent value. It has an exceptionally broad appeal to everyone
worldwide with an interest in the ancient Greeks and Romans, the
lands they penetrated, and the peoples and cultures they
encountered in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Scholars and
libraries should find it essential. It is also for students,
travelers, lovers of fine cartography, and anyone eager to retrace
Alexander's eastward marches, cross the Alps with Hannibal,
traverse the Eastern Mediterranean with St. Paul, or ponder the
roads, aqueducts, and defense works of the Roman Empire. For the
new millennium the "Barrington Atlas" brings the ancient past back
to life in an unforgettably vivid and inspiring way.
Map-by-Map Directory
A Map-by-Map Directory to the Barrington Atlas is available
online (http: //press.princeton.edu/B_ATLAS/B_ATLAS.PDF) and in a
separate two-volume print edition of close to 1,500 pages. The
Directory is designed to provide information about every place or
feature in the Barrington Atlas. The section for each map
comprises: a concise text drawing attention to special difficulties
in mapping a region, such as extensive landscape change since
antiquity, or uneven modern exploration.a listing of every name and
feature on the map, with basic data about the period of occupation,
the modern equivalents of ancient placenames, the modern country
within which they are located, and brief references to relevant
ancient testimony or modern studies.a bibliography of works
cited.
The Map-by-Map Directory is an essential accompaniment to the
"Barrington Atlas." As a uniquely rich, comprehensive, up-to-date
distillation of evidence and scholarship, it has no match elsewhere
and opens the way to an immense variety of further research
initiatives
Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides
a sweeping reinterpretation of the post-Civil War South by framing
the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For
more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so
desperate for economic growth that they rapaciously consumed the
region's abundant natural resources. Yet business leaders and
public officials did not see profit and environmental quality as
mutually exclusive goals, and they promoted methods of conserving
resources that they thought would ensure long-term economic growth.
Southerners called this idea "permanence." But permanence was a
contested concept, and these business people clashed with other
stakeholders as they struggled to find new ways of using valuable
resources. The Price of Permanence shows how these struggles
indelibly shaped the modern South. Bryan writes the region into the
national conservation movement for the first time and shows that
business leaders played a key role shaping the ideals of American
conservationists. This book also dismantles one of the most
persistent caricatures of southerners: that they had little
interest in environmental quality. Conservation provided white
elites with a tool for social control, and this is the first work
to show how struggles over resource policy fueled Jim Crow. The
ideology of "permanence" protected some resources but did not
prevent degradation of the environment overall, and The Price of
Permanence ultimately uses lessons from the New South to reflect on
sustainability today.
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