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The rise and fall of the national atlas in the twentieth century power, state and territory.
Between 1900 and 2000, more than seventy countries produced a national atlas, an official or quasi-official rendering of the nation-state in maps and accompanying text. This book considers the reasons behind and characteristics of this state-sponsored cartographic explosion. These national atlases m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
ANTHEM PRESS,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- A Century of Nationalism
- The Main Arguments
- Structure of the Book
- 2 The Early National Atlas
- A Cartographic Explosion
- The Early National Atlas in England and France
- 3 Cartographic Anxieties and the Emergence of the Modern National Atlas
- The Modern National Atlas in Latin America
- From Anxieties to Certainties
- Remaining Anxieties
- 4 Cartographic Ruptures and the National Atlas
- Cartographic Declarations of Independence
- Revolutionary Ruptures
- A Transect across the Ruptures
- 5 National Atlas, Global Discourses
- The Global Framing of the National
- The Language of the Atlas: Text
- The Language of the Atlas: Maps
- 6 The Physical World of the National Atlas
- Origins
- Science, State and the National Atlas
- National Imaginaries
- Contested Discourses of the National Atlas
- 7 The Social World of the National Atlas
- Social Statistics
- Statistical Atlases
- Social Categories
- 8 The End of the National Atlas?
- Information Overload
- New Technologies
- National Atlas as Digital Portal
- Toward a Polyphonic Participatory Atlas
- Notes
- Appendix: National Atlas Bibliography
- Index