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Historical Atlas of Tibet

Ryavec Karl E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226732442, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
216 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 121 colour plates, 36 halftones, 2 tables

Cradled among the world's highest mountains – and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities – Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In rec...

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Sidewalk City Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City

Kim Annette Miae

ISBN: HB: 9780226119229, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
264 pp., 22.8x21.5 cm, 32 colour plates, 14 halftones, 7 line drawings

For most, the term "public space" conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals and recreation. In many of the world's major cities,...

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History of Cartography, Volume 6 Cartography in the Twentieth Century

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534695, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
1728 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 805 colour plates, 119 halftones, 242 line drawings, 61 tables

For more than thirty years, the "History of Cartography Project" has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps".Volume 6, Cartography in...

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History of Art

Cartography

Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Marta Karen

ISBN: PB: 9789948207825, DAP, Sharjah Art Foundation, November 2014
275 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! In this volume, curators, theorists, artists and writers argue for methods of map-making that go beyond geographic representation. The artist emerges as a new cartographer, who intervenes in existing maps to reveal the know...

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Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

Olshin Benjamin B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226149820, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 23 halftones, 3 line drawings

In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled "Il Milione", later known as "The Travels of Marco Polo". While Polo's writings would g...

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Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus

Tsutsiev Arthur, Seligman Favorov Nora

ISBN: HB: 9780300153088, Yale University Press, May 2014
208 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 57 colour maps

"The Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus" is a magnificent collection of fifty-six original maps with commentaries that detail the ethnic, religious, and linguistic makeup of the Caucasus – the region located between the Black and Ca...

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London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689

Batchelor Robert K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226080659, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

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 trade...

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Africa

Mastering the Niger James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery

Lambert David

ISBN: HB: 9780226078069, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

In "Mastering the Niger", David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of "A New Map of Africa" in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery – as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political strugg...

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America

Mapping the Nation History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

Schulten Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226103969, ISBN: HB: 9780226740683, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 47 halftones

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 m...

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Astronomy

Secret Science Spanish Cosmography and the New World

Portuondo Maria M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055404, ISBN: HB: 9780226675343, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 tables, 10 colour plates, 14 halftones, 5 line illus.

The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes i...

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