Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale Report for 1967
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale; Report
Author: United Nations. SecretariatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International 1/M map
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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.
Global Environmental Databases
Author: Ryutaro TateishiPublisher:
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Category : Environmental indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
International Organization and Conference Series
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Bulletin - SLA Geography and Map Division
Author: Special Libraries Association. Geography and Map DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Official Records of the ... Session of the General Assembly
Author: International Organization and Conference Series
Author: United States. Dept. of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Maps & Civilization
Author: Norman Joseph William ThrowerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226799735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Preface1. Introduction: Maps of Preliterate Peoples2. Maps of Classical Antiquity3. Early Maps of East and South Asia4. Cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages5. The Rediscovery of Ptolemy and Cartography in Renaissance Europe6. Cartography in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment7. Diversification and Development in the Nineteenth Century8. Modern Cartography: Official and Quasi-Official Maps9. Modern Cartography: Private and Institutional MapsAppendix A: Selected Map ProjectionsAppendix B: Short List of IsogramsAppendix C: GlossaryNotesIllustration SourcesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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