Time in Maps : From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era /

Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today's digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Akerman, James R. (Contribuidor), Dora, Veronica Della (Contribuidor), Mundy, Barbara E. (Contribuidor), Pegg, Richard A. (Contribuidor), Rankin, William (Contribuidor), Rosenberg, Daniel (Contribuidor), Schulten, Susan (Contribuidor), Smith Rumsey, Abby (Contribuidor), Wigen, Kären (Contribuidor, Editor ), Winterer, Caroline (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Temas:
Cartography > Congresses > History.
Cartography > History > Congresses.
Cartography-History-Congresses.
Time in cartography > Congresses
Time in cartography > Congresses.
HISTORY / General.
cartography.
early modern era.
enlightenment.
historical maps.
temporality.
time.
visual studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Maps Tell Time
  • 1 Mapping Time in the Twentieth (and Twenty-First) Century
  • Part I Pacific Asia
  • 2 Orienting the Past in Early Modern Japan
  • 3 Jesuit Maps in China and Korea: Connecting the Past to the Present
  • Part II The Atlantic World
  • 4 History in Maps from the Aztec Empire
  • 5 Lifting the Veil of Time: Maps, Metaphor, and Antiquarianism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • 6 A Map of Language
  • Part III The United States
  • 7 The First American Maps of Deep Time
  • 8 How Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States
  • 9 Time, Travel, and Mapping the Landscapes of War
  • Contributors
  • Index

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