In space we read time : on the history of civilization and geopolitics /

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"History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl Schlogel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just as important as the when. Schlogel relishes space the way a writer relishes a good story: on a q...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schlögel, Karl (Autor)
Otros Autores: Jackson, Gerrit (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: New York City : Bard Graduate Center, 2016.
Colección:Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world.
Temas:
Civilization, Modern > History.
Geopolitics > History.
Geography > History.
Space and time.
History > Philosophy.
Historiography > Philosophy.
Géopolitique > Histoire.
Géographie > Histoire.
Histoire > Philosophie.
Historiographie > Philosophie.
ART > European.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Cartography.
HISTORY > World.
ART > General.
Civilization, Modern
Geography
Geopolitics
Historiography > Philosophy
History > Philosophy
Space and time
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Preface to the American Edition
  • Introduction
  • The Return of Space. Alexander von Humboldt's Ship. Navigation; Object Lesson I: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989; Object Lesson II: Ground Zero, September 11, 2001; "Spatial Atrophy": The Disappearance of Space; Horror Vacui: The Terrors of Simultaneity; The German Case: Space as Obsession; Spatial Turn, At Last; Cyberia: New Space, New Geopolitics
  • Reading Maps. Times of the Map: The Cartographic Record of Time; What Maps Show: Knowledge and Human Interests; Language of Maps, Cartographic Languages War and the Eye; Sarajevo: When Knowing the Terrain Is Essential for Survival; The Layout of the Ghetto of Kovno; Philo-Atlas: Escape Routes; Arcades: Benjamin's Walk to the Bibliothèque nationale; Boundaries, Razor-Sharp and Otherwise; World Pictures, Map Images: Another Phenomenology of Spirit; Landscapes, Paradisiacal and Other; Portolan Charts: Putting Out to Sea, Sailing for New Shores; Discours du méridien: Descartes and Cassini; Jefferson's Map: The Matrix of American Democracy; Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of India, 1765-1843; Maps, Monochrome: The Nation-StateGlobal Traffic: The Power of the Bourgeoisie; Jan Vermeer's The Geographer (1669); Giving the World a Name; Sándor Radó: The Spy Who Loved Cartography; Mental Maps: San Francisco, "Home," the German East, etc.; The Strategist's Gesture: Scenes at the Map Table; The Flâneur: A Way of Moving, a Cognitive Register
  • The Work of the Eye. Trusting Our Eyes. "In Space We Read Time"; Crime Scene: Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963, 12:30 p.m.; The Sidewalk Pavement: Surfaces, Hieroglyphs; Landscapes, Reliefs; Hot Places, Cold Places; Reading Cities, City Maps; Houses, Floor Plans: Hotel Lux, the House on the Embankment, and Others; Proust. Interiors; Berlin Address Books; Local Knowledge, Subversive; Railroad Timetables: Protocols of Civilization; The Fingerprint: Relief of the Body; Biography, Curriculum Vitae; Karl Baedeker's Handbook for Travelers, or The Construction of Central Europe; American Space: The Poetics of the Highway; Russian Space: An Essay in Hermeneutics
  • Europe, Diaphanous. Traveling Europe in Diaghilev's Footsteps; Topographies of Terror; Europe, a Graveyard; The Gate at Birkenau; Arrows: Changes of Place, Movement ImagesRemapping Europe; Herodotus in Moscow, Benjamin in Los Angeles
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.

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