Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Report Upon the Third International Geographic Congress and Exhibition at Venice, Italy, 1881, Accompanied by Data Concerning the Principal Government Land and Marine Surveys of the World
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Report Upon the Third International Geographical Congress and Exhibition at Venice, Italy, 1881
Author: George Montague WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. 1802-1902 ...
Author: United States Military AcademyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military education
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Engineer Department, United States Army ...
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
War Department Exhibit
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography
Author: Report of the Science Advisory Board
Author: Science Advisory BoardPublisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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.