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Decolonizing the map : cartography from colony to nation /
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 thei...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / James R. Akerman
- Cartography and decolonization / Raymond B. Craib
- Entangled spaces: mapping multiple identities in eighteenth-century new Spain / Magali Carrera
- Cartography in the production (and silencing) of Colombian independence history, 1807-1827 / Lina del Castillo
- Democratizing the map: the geo-body and national cartography in Guatemala, 1821- 2010 / Jordana Dym
- Uncovering the roles of African surveyors and draftsmen in mapping the Gold Coast, 1874 to 1957 / Jamie McGowan
- Multiscalar nations: cartography and countercartography of the Egyptian nation-state / Karen Culcasi
- Art on the line: cartography and creativity in a divided world / Sumathi Ramaswamy
- Signs of the times: commercial road mapping and national identity in South Africa / Thomas J. Bassett.