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Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City Land, Writing, and Native Rule

Miller Mary E., Mundy Barbara E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300180718, Yale University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 277 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

In 1975, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University acquired an exceptional mid-16th-century map of Mexico City, which, until 1521, had been the capital of the Aztecs, the Nahua-speaking people who dominated the Valley of Mexico...

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Korea A Cartographic History

Short John Rennie

ISBN: HB: 9780226753645, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 71 colour illus.

The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, "Korea: A Cartographic History" provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today's most prolific and well-re...

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Mapping Latin America A Cartographic Reader

Dym Jordana, Offen Karl

ISBN: PB: 9780226618227, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
360 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 halftones, 118 colour illus.

For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something – a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn't, an...

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Public Health

Disease Maps Epidemics on the Ground

Koch Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226449357, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
344 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 2 tables, 106 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea – that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the...

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Atlas of Socio Spatial Differentiation of the Czech Republic

Ourednicek Martin, Temelova Jana, Pospisilova Lucie

ISBN: PB: 9788024618890, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2011
150 pp., 31x31 cm, 37 maps, 50 graphs, 50 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This unique atlas visually depicts a variety of transformational processes that occurred in the Czech Republic during the past twenty years. Central to the transformation was a rapid econo...

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Kandik Map

Johnson Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781602230422, ISBN: HB: 9781602230323, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, Francois Mercier, traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. Linda Johnson now delves into the fascinating story behind th...

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No Dig, No Fly, No Go How Maps Restrict and Control

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534688, ISBN: HB: 9780226534671, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
242 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 line drawings, 63 halftones

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain...

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Archaeological Atlas of Prehistoric Europe (Archeologicky Atlas Evropy)

Buchvaldek Miroslav, Lippert Andreas, Kosnar Lubomir

ISBN: HB + CD: 9788024607740, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2009
724 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, 827 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A collaborative effort of the Archaeological Institutes of the universities of Prague and Vienna, "Atlas of the Prehistoric Archaeology of Europe" documents the spread of prehistoric cultu...

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Natures of Maps Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World

Wood Denis, Fels John

ISBN: HB: 9780226906041, University of Chicago Press, January 2009
231 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 179 colour plates, 16 halftones

Cartographers have known for decades that maps are far from objective representations of the world; rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. Yet that understanding has had almost no effect on the way maps are viewed and...

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Earth Sciences

Coast Lines How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534039, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious cha...

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