Maps & civilization : cartography in culture and society
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Bibliographic Information
Maps & civilization : cartography in culture and society
University of Chicago Press, 1996
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Maps and civilization
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Rev. ed. of: Maps & man, 1972
Bibliographical references: p. 259-299
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780226799711
Description
This work, first published as "Maps and Man", provides a concise introduction to the history of cartography. In this edition, the author has expanded his survey to include recent revolutions in cartography and new research on indigenous and early Western maps carried out since the publication of the first edition. The book presents maps rare in reproduction that reflect the cultural and scientific evolution of societies from ancient Egypt and early China to contemporary Western civilization. From the oldest known map to current CD-ROM maps for automobiles and new forms of cartography created in the computer-based field of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the author shows how maps have changed in response to new demands to describe where we live, mark territory, plan communities, plot military strategy, navigate oceans, track weather, measure traffic flow or chart the heavens.
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: paper ISBN 9780226799728
Description
This work, first published as "Maps and Man", provides a concise introduction to the history of cartography. In this edition, the author has expanded his survey to include recent revolutions in cartography and new research on indigenous and early Western maps carried out since the publication of the first edition. The book presents maps rare in reproduction that reflect the cultural and scientific evolution of societies from ancient Egypt and early China to contemporary Western civilization. From the oldest known map to current CD-ROM maps for automobiles and new forms of cartography created in the computer-based field of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the author shows how maps have changed in response to new demands to describe where we live, mark territory, plan communities, plot military strategy, navigate oceans, track weather, measure traffic flow or chart the heavens.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Introduction: Maps of Preliterate Peoples 2. Maps of Classical Antiquity 3. Early Maps of East and South Asia 4. Cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages 5. The Rediscovery of Ptolemy and Cartography in Renaissance Europe 6. Cartography in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment 7. Diversification and Development in the Nineteenth Century 8. Modern Cartography: Official and Quasi-Official Maps 9. Modern Cartography: Private and Institutional Maps Appendix A: Selected Map Projections Appendix B: Short List of Isograms Appendix C: Glossary Notes Illustration Sources Index
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