The Sovereign Map - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sovereign Map write by Christian Jacob. This book was released on 2006-10-15. The Sovereign Map available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
The Cartographic State
The Cartographic State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cartographic State write by Jordan Branch. This book was released on 2014. The Cartographic State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes the emergence of the territorial state and examines the role that cartography has played in shaping its linear boundaries.
Mapping the Ottomans
Mapping the Ottomans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Ottomans write by Palmira Brummett. This book was released on 2015-05-19. Mapping the Ottomans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.
After the Map
After the Map - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the Map write by William Rankin. This book was released on 2016-07-01. After the Map available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a “map-minded age,” where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century’s end, however, there had been decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems. In After the Map, William Rankin argues that although this shift did not render traditional maps obsolete, it did radically change our experience of geographic knowledge, from the God’s-eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS. Likewise, older concerns with geographic truth and objectivity have been upstaged by a new emphasis on simplicity, reliability, and convenience. After the Map shows how this change in geographic perspective is ultimately a transformation of the nature of territory, both social and political.
Mapping the Nation
Mapping the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Nation write by Susan Schulten. This book was released on 2012-06-29. Mapping the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.
