Cartography category: 112 books
by Rajeshwar Roy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Cartography is one of the oldest professions in the world and is known as "The Art and Science of Making Maps". Cartography, the art and science of graphically representing a geographical area, usually on a flat surface such as a map or chart; it may involve the superimposition of political,...
Maps with the News
The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Maps with the News is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
"A most welcome...
Literature and Cartography
Theories, Histories, Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the...
Reflexive Cartography
A New Perspective in Mapping
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Reflexive Cartography addresses the adaptation of cartography, including its digital forms (GIS, WebGIS, PPGIS), to the changing needs of society, and outlines the experimental context aimed at mapping a topological space. Using rigorous scientific analysis based on statement consistency, relevance...
Map Worlds
A History of Women in Cartography
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of...
by Leo Bagrow
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world, and to tell us something of their development, their makers and printers, their varieties and characteristics. The authors' chief concern is with the appearance of maps: they...
Early Mapping of the Pacific
The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Take a journey back to the uncharted oceans with the most celebrated European explorers!
Interest in Southeast Asian history and culture is higher than ever before. Ancient cartography of Oceania holds mysteries as old as time—were these early ocean maps molded as much by fantasy as fact?...
Decolonizing the Map
Cartography from Colony to Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independence, and it is rarely straightforward. Mapping their...
Mapping It Out
Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Writers know only too well how long it can take—and how awkward it can be—to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively.
In...
Landmarks in Mapping
50 Years of the Cartographic Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Founded by the British Cartographic Society (BCS) and first published in June 1964, The Cartographic Journal was the first general distribution English language journal in cartography. This volume of classic papers and accompanying invited reflections brings together some of the key papers to...
Cartophilia
Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed borderland that the French and Germans both claimed...
by David Buisseret
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
In 1400 Europe was behind large parts of the world in its understanding of the use of maps. For instance, the people gf China and of Japan were considerably more advanced in this respect. And yet, by 1600 the Europeans had come to use maps for a huge variety of tasks, and were far ahead of the rest of...
Medieval Islamic Maps
An Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies to the enduring importance of these medieval visions...
by Benjamin B. Olshin
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled Il Milione, later known as The Travels of Marco Polo. While Polo’s writings would go on to inspire the likes of Christopher Columbus,...