The King's Two Maps

The King's Two Maps PDF Author: Daniel Birkholz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135884951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Book Description
While a culture may have a dominant way of "mapping," its geography is always plural, and there is always competition among conceptions of space. Beginning with this understanding, this book traces the map's early development into an emblem of the state, and charts the social and cultural implications of this phenomenon. This book chronicles the specific technologies, both material and epistemological, by which the map shows itself capable of accessing, organizing, and reorienting a tremendous range of information.