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Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before
colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen
essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous and
European peoples' creation and use of maps to better represent and
understand the world they inhabited. Drawing from both current
historical interpretations and new interdisciplinary perspectives,
this collection provides diverse approaches to understanding the
multilayered exchanges that went into creating cartographic
knowledge in and about the Americas. In the introduction, editor
Martin Bruckner provides a critical assessment of the concept of
cartography and of the historiography of maps. The individual
essays, then, range widely over space and place, from the imperial
reach of Iberian and British cartography to indigenous
conceptualizations, including ""dirty,"" ephemeral maps and star
charts, to demonstrate that pre-nineteenth-century American
cartography was at once a multiform and multicultural affair. This
volume not only highlights the collaborative genesis of
cartographic knowledge about the early Americas; the essays also
bring to light original archives and innovative methodologies for
investigating spatial relations among peoples in the western
hemisphere. Taken together, the authors reveal the roles of early
American cartographies in shaping popular notions of national
space, informing visual perception, animating literary imagination,
and structuring the political history of Anglo- and Ibero-America.
The contributors are: Martin Bruckner, University of Delaware
Michael J. Drexler, Bucknell University Matthew H. Edney,
University of Southern Maine Jess Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan
University Junia Ferreira Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil William Gustav Gartner, University of
Wisconsin-Madison Gavin Hollis, Hunter College of the City
University of New York Scott Lehman, independent scholar Ken
MacMillan, University of Calgary Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham
University Andrew Newman, Stony Brook University Ricardo Padron,
University of Virginia Judith Ridner, Mississippi State University
|Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from
before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The
fourteen essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous
and European peoples' creation and use of maps to better represent
and understand the world they inhabited.
As GIS technology has evolved and grown, so has the language of
this powerful tool. Written, developed, and reviewed by more than
150 subject-matter experts, ""A to Z GIS"" is packed with more than
1,800 terms; nearly 400 full-color illustrations; and, seven
encyclopedia-style appendix articles about annotation and labels,
features, geometry, layers in ArcGIS, map projections and
coordinate systems, remote sensing, and topology. ""A to Z GIS"" is
a must-have resource for managers, programmers, users, writers,
editors, and students discovering the interdisciplinary nature of
GIS.
This book reviews and summarizes the development and achievement in
cartography and geographic information engineering in China over
the past 60 years after the founding of the People's Republic of
China. It comprehensively reflects cartography, as a traditional
discipline, has almost the same long history with the world's first
culture and has experienced extraordinary and great changes. The
book consists of nineteen thematic chapters. Each chapter is in
accordance with the unified directory structure, introduction,
development process, major study achievements, problem and
prospect, representative works, as well as a lot of references. It
is useful as a reference both for scientists and technicians who
are engaged in teaching, researching and engineering of cartography
and geographic information engineering.
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London
(Hardcover)
Robert K. Batchelor
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R1,454
Discovery Miles 14 540
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the
1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had
emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as
well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost
certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the wool
and cloth trade with a population of around 75,000, still trying to
recover from the onslaught of the Black Plague. But by 1700
London's population had reached a staggering 575,000-and it had
developed its first global corporations, as well as relationships
with non-European societies outside the Mediterranean. What
happened in the span of a century and a half? And how exactly did
London transform itself into a global city? London's success,
Robert K. Batchelor argues, lies not just with the well-documented
rise of Atlantic settlements, markets, and economies. Using his
discovery of a network of Chinese merchant shipping routes on John
Selden's map of China as his jumping-off point, Batchelor reveals
how London also flourished because of its many encounters,
engagements, and exchanges with East Asian trading cities.
Translation plays a key role in Batchelor's study-translation not
just of books, manuscripts, and maps, but also of meaning and
knowledge across cultures - and Batchelor demonstrates how
translation helped London understand and adapt to global economic
conditions. Looking outward at London's global negotiations,
Batchelor traces the development of its knowledge networks back to
a number of foreign sources and credits particular interactions
with England's eventual political and economic autonomy from church
and king. London offers a much-needed non-Eurocentric history of
London, first by bringing to light and then by synthesizing the
many external factors and pieces of evidence that contributed to
its rise as a global city. It will appeal to students and scholars
interested in the cultural politics of translation, the
relationship between merchants and sovereigns, and the cultural and
historical geography of Britain and Asia.
In this comprehensive study, Kenneth Morgan provides an
authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in
Australia. The book presents a detailed chronological overview of
European interests in the Australian continent, from initial
speculations about the 'Great Southern Land' to the major
hydrographic expeditions of the 19th century. In particular, he
analyses the early crossings of the Dutch in the 17th century, the
exploits of English 'buccaneer adventurer' William Dampier, the
famous voyages of James Cook and Matthew Flinders, and the
little-known French annexation of Australia in 1772. Introducing
new findings and drawing on the latest in historiographical
research, this book situates developments in navigation, nautical
astronomy and cartography within the broader contexts of imperial,
colonial, and maritime history.
Whilst the First World War had seen an exceptional growth in the
use and production of military cartography, the global conflict
that followed employed maps, charts, reconnaissance, radar, sonar
and the systematic recording and processing of geographical and
topographical information on an unprecedented scale. It is
impossible to understand the events and outcomes of the Second
World War without deep reference to mapping at all levels. Maps
themselves became the weapons and had a decisive impact. In this
highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military
and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the
conflict as he charts its historical sweep across each of the major
theatres. The book's thematic arrangement -- exploring the
conflict's maps through strategic, operational, tactical, reportage
and propaganda means -- provides a truly ground-breaking
perspective. The story is told through 100 key maps, many
photographed for the very first time, from the unrivalled
collections of the British Library and other major cartographic
holdings.
In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for
granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the
fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A
""carto-coded"" America - a nation in which maps are pervasive and
meaningful - had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks
American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented
cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than
communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They
became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and
women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly
entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive
exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature
maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps
were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions
affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical
performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly
illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of
creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets,
parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the
Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with
maps; Martin Bruckner's comprehensive history of quotidian
cartographic encounters is the first to show us how.
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