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Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....
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£34,00
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History of Cartography, Volume 4 Cartography in the European Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780226184753, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
1920 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 962 colour plates, 4 line drawings, 6 tables
Since its launch in 1987, the "History of Cartography" series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. "Cartography in the European Enlightenment", the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a com...
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£395,00
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Islamic Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851244928, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
192 pp., 28x23.7 cm, 60 colour illus.
Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and...
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£35,00
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Atlas of Boston History
ISBN: HB: 9780226631158, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 35.5x27.9 cm, 57 colour plates
Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural ca...
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£30,00
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Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell
ISBN: PB: 9781851245239, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2019
144 pp., 19.6x19.6 cm, 80 colour illus.
From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by...
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£12,00
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Why North is Up Map Conventions and Where They Came From
ISBN: HB: 9781851245192, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2019
224 pp., 22.8x17.6 cm, 108 colour illus.
Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them to better represent our world and users to underst...
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£20,00
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Cartographics Designing the Modern Map
ISBN: HB: 9789881470331, Bookport, SendPoints, July 2019
256 pp., 31x24 cm, 280 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! This is a collection of maps that tread off the beaten path of mapmaking and redefine exactly what a map can do. Some incorporate strategies from infographics, such as one that uses abstract depictions of public transporta...
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£34,95
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Talking Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851245154, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2019
224 pp., 27x27 cm, 100 colour illus.
Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people's lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by wri...
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£35,00
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Selden Map of China A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty
ISBN: HB: 9781851245246, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2019
96 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 40 colour illus.
Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian landmass but outward to the sea. Discovered in the s...
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£20,00
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Cartography The Ideal and Its History
ISBN: PB: 9780226605685, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
296 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 65 halftones
Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has pr...
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£23,00
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