Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
Report of the Sixth International Geographical Congress
Author: Report of the ... International Geographical Congress
Author: The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author: The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society
Author: Manchester Geographical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author: Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Forming the Library of Frederic David Mocatta
Author: Frederic David MocattaPublisher: London : Harrison
ISBN:
Category : Hebrew literature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
After the Map
Author: William RankinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022633953X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a “map-minded age,” where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century’s end, however, there had been decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems. In After the Map, William Rankin argues that although this shift did not render traditional maps obsolete, it did radically change our experience of geographic knowledge, from the God’s-eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS. Likewise, older concerns with geographic truth and objectivity have been upstaged by a new emphasis on simplicity, reliability, and convenience. After the Map shows how this change in geographic perspective is ultimately a transformation of the nature of territory, both social and political.