Author: British Institution of Radio EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers
Author: British Institution of Radio EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers
Author: The Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers
Author: British Institution of Radio EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
NBS Special Publication
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Technical Data Digest
Author: Bibliography of Space Books and Articles from Non-aerospace Journals, 1957-1977
Author: John J. LooneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
NIST Serial Holdings
Author: National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Confidential Documents
Author: United States. Army Air ForcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Exchange List
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exchange
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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.