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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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Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 3 Cartography in the European Renaissance

Woodward David

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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Cartography

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame

Monmonier Mark

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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Philosophy

Abysmal A Critique of Cartographic Reason

Olsson Gunnar

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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