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Author: Chet Van Duzer Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004307273 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 261
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In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here.
Author: Chet Van Duzer Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004307273 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 261
Book Description
In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here.
Author: Barrett Williams Publisher: Barrett Williams ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 99
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Step into a world reshaped, a landscape reborn from the ashes of the old. "The Post-Apocalyptic Survival Handbook" is your ultimate guide to thriving in the wilds of a world transformed. Each chapter unfolds secrets to mastering this new environment, sharing must-have skills in the relentless pursuit of survival. Imagine a world where water is as precious as gold—and just as hard to find. "The Post-Apocalyptic Survival Handbook" reveals prized techniques for locating, purifying, and harvesting the essence of life itself. Learn to engineer solar stills that coax water from the most unexpected places, securing your lifeline in a parched new era. Food is not just about sustenance; it's hope, it's energy, it’s survival. Turn the earth’s generosity to your advantage as the book guides you through foraging, hunting, and nurturing the seeds of tomorrow. Unearth the secrets of small-scale agriculture and permaculture, transforming the barren into a bounty that sustains life itself. When the safety of four walls is a luxury of the past, shelter becomes a profound priority. Discover how to select the safest grounds and craft a haven from natural and scavenged materials. Navigate the fine balance between insulation and exposure, mastering the art of making a home in the heart of the wilderness. Harness the power of the wind, sun, and water with DIY renewable energy systems that shine a light of hope onto a world left dark. "The Post-Apocalyptic Survival Handbook" empowers you to craft an electrified future, from scratch, with its detailed guides on energy storage and distribution. Delve into the depths of post-apocalyptic healthcare, where every scratch could be perilous. This guide stands as your first responder, imparting wisdom on managing trauma, using herbal medicines, and preserving both physical and mental health against overwhelming odds. Facing danger requires more than brute strength; it needs wit, strategy, and adaptability. The handbook equips you with defense strategies that make the difference between being a victim and a victor. From hand-to-hand combat to crafting makeshift weapons and implementing security measures, be prepared to stand your ground. In a world where cash is kindling and gold has lost its glimmer, "The Post-Apocalyptic Survival Handbook" transforms you into a master of barter and trade. Learn how to assess value in a currency-less economy, ensuring that when you trade, you triumph. As you turn each page, you'll unravel the fabric of a new society through collective effort and shared wisdom. Building communities, upholding human dignity, and setting ethical standards—this handbook is the blueprint for civilization’s rebirth. Venture beyond mere existence. Dare to dream, plan, and build for generations yet to come. Your handbook for the dawn after darkness, for the life beyond survival, awaits. Embrace your new beginning with "The Post-Apocalyptic Survival Handbook," your essential companion in charting the course of mankind's resurgence. The future is not written; it's survived.
Author: Roslyn Weaver Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786484659 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 241
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Australia has been a frequent choice of location for narratives about the end of the world in science fiction and speculative works, ranging from pre-colonial apocalyptic maps to key literary works from the last fifty years. This critical work explores the role of Australia in both apocalyptic literature and film. Works and genres covered include Nevil Shute's popular novel On the Beach, Mad Max, children's literature, Indigenous writing, and cyberpunk. The text examines ways in which apocalypse is used to undermine complacency, foretell environmental disasters, critique colonization, and to serve as a means of protest for minority groups. Australian apocalypse imagines Australia at the ends of the world, geographically and psychologically, but also proposes spaces of hope for the future.
Author: Jenny Stümer Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110787008 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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The notion of apocalypse is an age-old concept which has gained renewed interest in popular and scholarly discourse. The book highlights the versatile explications of apocalypse today, demonstrating that apocalyptic transformations - the various encounters with anthropogenic climate change, nuclear violence, polarized politics, colonial assault, and capitalist extractivism - navigate a range of interdisciplinary views on the present moment. Moving from old worlds to new worlds, from world-ending experiences to apocalyptic imaginaries and, finally, from authoritarianism to activism and advocacy, the contributions begin to map the emerging field of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies. Foregrounding the myriad ways in which collective imaginations of apocalypse underpin ethical, political, and, sometimes, individual experience, the authors provide key points of reference for understanding old and new predicaments that are transforming our many worlds.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004446036 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 247
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Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of interaction between medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic geographical thought, making the case for significant but limited cultural transfer across a range of map genres.
Author: Edith Clowes Publisher: Amherst College Press ISBN: 1943208778 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 260
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Shredding the Map investigates Russian place consciousness in the decade between the start of World War I and the end of the Russian civil war. Attachment to place is a vital aspect of human identity, and connection to homeland, whether imagined or real, can be especially powerful. Drawing from a large digital database of period literature, Shredding the Map investigates the metamorphic changes in how Russians related to places-whether abstractions like "country" or concrete spaces of borders, fronts, and edgelands-during these years. An innovative, digitally-aided study of Russia's "imagined geography" during the early decades of the twentieth century, Shredding the Map uncovers vying emotional patterns and responses to Russian ideas of place, some familiar and some quite new. The book includes new visualizations that connect otherwise invisible networks of shared place, feeling, and perception among dozens of writers in order to trace patterns of geospatial identity. A scholarly companion to the "Mapping Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia" website and database, this book offers an innovative analysis of place and identity beyond the centers of power, enhancing our perceptions of Russia and encouraging debate about the possibilities for digital humanities and literary analysis.
Author: Matthew H. Edney Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022660568X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 324
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Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
Author: Jerome Tharaud Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691203261 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 358
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How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American culture In nineteenth-century America, "apocalypse" referred not to the end of the world but to sacred revelation, and "geography" meant both the physical landscape and its representation in printed maps, atlases, and pictures. In Apocalyptic Geographies, Jerome Tharaud explores how white Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to present the antebellum landscape as a “sacred space” of spiritual pilgrimage, and how devotional literature influenced secular society in important and surprising ways. Reading across genres and media—including religious tracts and landscape paintings, domestic fiction and missionary memoirs, slave narratives and moving panoramas—Apocalyptic Geographies illuminates intersections of popular culture, the physical spaces of an expanding and urbanizing nation, and the spiritual narratives that ordinary Americans used to orient their lives. Placing works of literature and visual art—from Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden—into new contexts, Tharaud traces the rise of evangelical media, the controversy and backlash it engendered, and the role it played in shaping American modernity.
Author: Chet Van Duzer Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004523839 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, historical, and philosophical messages their symbols convey. Cartouches are the most visually appealing parts of maps, and also spaces where the cartographer uses decoration to express his or her interests—so they are key to interpreting maps. The book discusses thirty-three cartouches in detail, which range from 1569 to 1821, and were chosen for the richness of their imagery. The book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at maps.
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