Author: United States Geographic Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board
Author: United States Geographic Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board, 1890 to 1932
Author: United States Geographic Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Report of the United States Geographic Board
Author: United States Geographic Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board, 1890 to 1932
Author: United States Geographic Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Decisions of the United States Board on Geographical Names
Author: United States Board on Geographical Names
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Decisions of the United States Board on Geographical Names
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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The History of Cartography, Volume 6
Author: Mark Monmonier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022615212X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1941
Book Description
For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century, continues this tradition with a groundbreaking survey of the century just ended and a new full-color, encyclopedic format. The twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history. The transition from paper to digital formats led to previously unimaginable dynamic and interactive maps. Geographic information systems radically altered cartographic institutions and reduced the skill required to create maps. Satellite positioning and mobile communications revolutionized wayfinding. Mapping evolved as an important tool for coping with complexity, organizing knowledge, and influencing public opinion in all parts of the globe and at all levels of society. Volume 6 covers these changes comprehensively, while thoroughly demonstrating the far-reaching effects of maps on science, technology, and society—and vice versa. The lavishly produced volume includes more than five hundred articles accompanied by more than a thousand images. Hundreds of expert contributors provide both original research, often based on their own participation in the developments they describe, and interpretations of larger trends in cartography. Designed for use by both scholars and the general public, this definitive volume is a reference work of first resort for all who study and love maps.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022615212X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1941
Book Description
For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century, continues this tradition with a groundbreaking survey of the century just ended and a new full-color, encyclopedic format. The twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history. The transition from paper to digital formats led to previously unimaginable dynamic and interactive maps. Geographic information systems radically altered cartographic institutions and reduced the skill required to create maps. Satellite positioning and mobile communications revolutionized wayfinding. Mapping evolved as an important tool for coping with complexity, organizing knowledge, and influencing public opinion in all parts of the globe and at all levels of society. Volume 6 covers these changes comprehensively, while thoroughly demonstrating the far-reaching effects of maps on science, technology, and society—and vice versa. The lavishly produced volume includes more than five hundred articles accompanied by more than a thousand images. Hundreds of expert contributors provide both original research, often based on their own participation in the developments they describe, and interpretations of larger trends in cartography. Designed for use by both scholars and the general public, this definitive volume is a reference work of first resort for all who study and love maps.
Mapping Nature across the Americas
Author: Kathleen A. Brosnan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022669657X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, they are abstractions that capture someone’s idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. These very characteristics, however, give maps their importance for understanding how humans have interacted with the natural world, and give historical maps, especially, the power to provide rich insights into the relationship between humans and nature over time. That is just what is achieved in Mapping Nature across the Americas. Illustrated throughout, the essays in this book argue for greater analysis of historical maps in the field of environmental history, and for greater attention within the field of the history of cartography to the cultural constructions of nature contained within maps. This volume thus provides the first in-depth and interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental knowledge in the Americas—including, for example, stories of indigenous cartography in Mexico, the allegorical presence of palm trees in maps of Argentina, the systemic mapping of US forests, and the scientific platting of Canada’s remote lands.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022669657X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, they are abstractions that capture someone’s idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. These very characteristics, however, give maps their importance for understanding how humans have interacted with the natural world, and give historical maps, especially, the power to provide rich insights into the relationship between humans and nature over time. That is just what is achieved in Mapping Nature across the Americas. Illustrated throughout, the essays in this book argue for greater analysis of historical maps in the field of environmental history, and for greater attention within the field of the history of cartography to the cultural constructions of nature contained within maps. This volume thus provides the first in-depth and interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental knowledge in the Americas—including, for example, stories of indigenous cartography in Mexico, the allegorical presence of palm trees in maps of Argentina, the systemic mapping of US forests, and the scientific platting of Canada’s remote lands.
Press Releases
Author: United States. Dept. of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Press Releases
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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