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Rome Measured and Imagined Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City
ISBN: HB: 9780226127637, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates, 84 halftones
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "crumbling city" populated by "broken ruins" into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists,...
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£40,00
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Exploring and Mapping Alaska The Russian America Era, 1741-1867
ISBN: HB: 9781602232518, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2015
450 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 maps
Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia,...
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£60,00
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Worldly Consumers The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780226255316, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings
Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In "Worldly Consumers", Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to priva...
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Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226254784, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
"In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age", Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as pro...
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Cartophilia Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland
ISBN: HB: 9780226173023, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
280 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 71 halftones
The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed bo...
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Historical Atlas of Tibet
ISBN: HB: 9780226732442, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
216 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 121 colour plates, 36 halftones, 2 tables
Cradled among the world's highest mountains – and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities – Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In rec...
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£34,00
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Sidewalk City Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City
ISBN: HB: 9780226119229, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
264 pp., 22.8x21.5 cm, 32 colour plates, 14 halftones, 7 line drawings
For most, the term "public space" conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals and recreation. In many of the world's major cities,...
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History of Cartography, Volume 6 Cartography in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226534695, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
1728 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 805 colour plates, 119 halftones, 242 line drawings, 61 tables
For more than thirty years, the "History of Cartography Project" has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps".Volume 6, Cartography in...
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£400,00
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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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London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689
ISBN: HB: 9780226080659, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trade...
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