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Mantle of the Earth Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor
ISBN: HB: 9780226741291, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 71 halftones
The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the "metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between t...
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£52,00
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Mapping Nature across the Americas
ISBN: HB: 9780226696430, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 59 halftones, 2 tables
Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very...
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£56,00
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Maps of Fredericksburg An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 - January 22, 1863
ISBN: HB: 9781611213713, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 122 maps
"The Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 – January 22, 1863" continues Bradley M. Gottfried's efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War's Eas...
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£30,00
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Map Men Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780226438498, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones
More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In "Map Men", Steven Seegel takes us through some of t...
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£41,00
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Medieval Islamic Maps An Exploration
ISBN: HB: 9780226126968, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 162 colour plates
Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies t...
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£48,00
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Mapping Shakespeare's World
ISBN: PB: 9781851242573, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
208 pp., 25x21 cm, 110 colour illus.
The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in...
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£25,00
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Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
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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£36,00
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Mastering the Niger James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery
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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£44,00
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Mapping the Nation History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
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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£24,00
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£43,50
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Mapping Latin America A Cartographic Reader
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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£34,50
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