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Author: Denis Wood
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors demonstrate that maps of the natural, physical world are just as culturally and socially constructed as any map of property or territory.
Author: Denis Wood
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780226906041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors demonstrate that maps of the natural, physical world are just as culturally and socially constructed as any map of property or territory.
Author: J. B. Harley
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-10-03
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780801870903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.
Author: J. B. Harley
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-10-03
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0801870909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.
Author: Arthur Howard Robinson
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Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780226722818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to a theory of cartography, attempting clear notions of the characteristics and processes by which a map acquires meaning from its maker and evokes meaning in its user
Author: Jennifer Jaye Price
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Published: 1999-04-22
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA quirky, brilliant debut book that explores the evolution of our relationship to nature and the ways in which we attach meaning to it today. "Flight Maps" should find its place on any bookshelf with the likes of David Quammen and John McPhee.
Author: Denis Wood
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2010-04-16
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 160623708X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of mapmaking and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art.
Author: Denis Wood
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780898624939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting rights, taxation districts and enterprise zones--they embody and project the interests of their creators. Sampling the scope of maps available today, illustrations include Peter Gould's AIDS map, Tom Van Sant's map of the earth, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and a child's drawing of the world. THE POWER OF MAPS was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design.
Author: John Brian Harley
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 664
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy developing the broadest and most inclusive definition of the term "map" ever adopted in the history of cartography, this inaugural volume of the History of Cartography series has helped redefine the way maps are studied and understood by scholars in a number of disciplines. Volume One addresses the prehistorical and historical mapping traditions of premodern Europe and the Mediterranean world. A substantial introductory essay surveys the historiography and theoretical development of the history of cartography and situates the work of the multi-volume series within this scholarly tradition. Cartographic themes include an emphasis on the spatial-cognitive abilities of Europe's prehistoric peoples and their transmission of cartographic concepts through media such as rock art; the emphasis on mensuration, land surveys, and architectural plans in the cartography of Ancient Egypt and the Near East; the emergence of both theoretical and practical cartographic knowledge in the Greco-Roman world; and the parallel existence of diverse mapping traditions (mappaemundi, portolan charts, local and regional cartography) in the Medieval period. Throughout the volume, a commitment to include cosmographical and celestial maps underscores the inclusive definition of "map" and sets the tone for the breadth of scholarship found in later volumes of the series.
Author: Kathleen A. Brosnan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-10-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780226696430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, they are abstractions that capture someone’s idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. These very characteristics, however, give maps their importance for understanding how humans have interacted with the natural world, and give historical maps, especially, the power to provide rich insights into the relationship between humans and nature over time. That is just what is achieved in Mapping Nature across the Americas. Illustrated throughout, the essays in this book argue for greater analysis of historical maps in the field of environmental history, and for greater attention within the field of the history of cartography to the cultural constructions of nature contained within maps. This volume thus provides the first in-depth and interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental knowledge in the Americas—including, for example, stories of indigenous cartography in Mexico, the allegorical presence of palm trees in maps of Argentina, the systemic mapping of US forests, and the scientific platting of Canada’s remote lands.
