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Cartography

Sovereign Map Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History

Christian Jacob

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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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars A Social History of the Mercator Projection

Monmonier Mark

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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Spying with Maps Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy

Monmonier Mark

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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Armenia A Historical Atlas

Hewsen Robert H.

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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Maps with the News The Development of American Journalistic Cartography

Monmonier Mark

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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Air Apparent How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534237, University of Chicago Press, April 1999
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 colour plates, 4 halftones, 89 line drawings

Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In "Air Apparent" Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapp...

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History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3 Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies

Woodward David, Lewis G. Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780226907284, University of Chicago Press, December 1998
500 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 24 colour plates, 267 halftones, 196 line drawings, 5 tables

Although they are often rendered in forms unfamiliar to Western eyes, maps have existed in most cultures. In this latest book of the acclaimed "History of Cartography", contributors from a broad variety of disciplines collaborate to describe and addr...

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Cartographies of Danger Mapping Hazards in America

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534190, ISBN: HB: 9780226534183, University of Chicago Press, October 1998
378 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 97 maps

No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley", near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made ha...

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Flattening the Earth Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

Snyder John P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226767475, University of Chicago Press, December 1997
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 163 maps and charts, 12 portraits

As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem mapmakers have created hundreds of map projections, mathematical methods for drawing the round earth...

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History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2 Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies

Harley J. B., Woodward David

ISBN: HB: 9780226316376, University of Chicago Press, February 1995
998 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 40 colour plates, 503 halftones

The monumental "History of Cartography" is an unprecedented survey of the development of cartography both as a science and an art. This essential reference presents the enormous value of maps to societies worldwide and explores the many ways they hav...

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