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Maps Finding Our Place in the World
ISBN: HB: 9780226010755, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
336 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 198 colour plates
Maps are universal forms of communication, easily understood and appreciated regardless of culture or language. This truly magisterial book introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever considered in one volume: maps from different time periods...
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£61,00
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History of Cartography, Volume 3 Cartography in the European Renaissance
ISBN: HB (SET): 9780226907321, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
2272 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 80 colour plates, 815 halftones, 150 line drawings, 20 tables
When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark "History of Cartography" series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J. B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the la...
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£346,50
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
ISBN: PB: 9780226534664, ISBN: HB: 9780226534657, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 17 line drawings
Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapma...
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£13,00
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£23,00
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Abysmal A Critique of Cartographic Reason
ISBN: HB: 9780226629308, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
584 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 45 halftones, 2 maps, 24 figures
People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers i...
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£39,00
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Cartographies of Travel and Navigation
ISBN: HB: 9780226010748, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 81 halftones, 4 line drawings
Finding one's way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of m...
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£60,00
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Sovereign Map Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History
ISBN: HB: 9780226389530, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 45 halftones, 15 line drawings
A novel work in the history of cartography, "The Sovereign Map" argues that maps are as much about thinking as seeing, as much about the art of persuasion as the science of geography. As a classicist, Christian Jacob brings a fresh eye to his subject...
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£65,00
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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars A Social History of the Mercator Projection
ISBN: HB: 9780226534312, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 halftones, 26 line drawings
In "Rhumb Lines and Map Wars", Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portra...
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£20,00
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Spying with Maps Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
ISBN: PB: 9780226534282, University of Chicago Press, November 2002
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 58 line drawings
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and disli...
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£17,50
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Armenia A Historical Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9780226332284, University of Chicago Press, May 2000
342 pp., 43.4x28 cm, 278 colour maps, 3 line drawings
From its conversion to Christianity to the Genocide during World War I, from the Soviet occupation to its recent independence, Armenia has seen a long and often turbulent history. In the magnificent "Armenia: A Historical Atlas", Robert H. Hewsen tra...
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£175,50
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Maps with the News The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
ISBN: PB: 9780226534138, University of Chicago Press, June 1999
348 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 117 line drawings
"Maps with the News" is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have ach...
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£23,00
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