Geography And Vision
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Geography And Vision
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Author : Denis Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-25
Geography And Vision written by Denis Cosgrove and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-25 with Social Science categories.
Leading geographer Denis Cosgrove provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. In a series of eloquent essays he draws upon pictorial images - including maps, sketches, cartoons, paintings, and photographs - to explore and elaborate upon the many and varied ways in which the vast and varied earth, and at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined and represented as a place of human habitation. The essays include reflections upon geographical discovery; urban cartography and utopian visions; ideas of landscape and the shaping of America; wilderness and masculinity; conceptions of the Pacific; and the imaginative grip of the Equator. Extensively illustrated, this engaging work reveals the richness of the geographical imagination as expressed over the past five centuries.
Geography And Vision
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Author : Denis E. Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Geography And Vision written by Denis E. Cosgrove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art and geography categories.
Geography And Visions
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Author : Denis E. Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Geography And Visions written by Denis E. Cosgrove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Geographical perception categories.
Geography Of The Gaze
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Author : Renzo Dubbini
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2002-04-15
Geography Of The Gaze written by Renzo Dubbini and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-15 with Art categories.
Geography of the Gaze offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, Renzo Dubbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the ways natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed. He begins with the idea of the "view," explaining its role in the invention of landscape painting and in the definition of landscape as a cultural space. Among other topics, Dubbini explores how the descriptive and pictorial techniques used in mariners' charts, view-oriented atlases, military cartography, and garden design were linked to the proliferation of highly realistic paintings of landscapes and city scenes; how the "picturesque" system for defining and composing landscapes affected not just art but also archaeology and engineering; and how the ever-changing modern cityscapes inspired new ways of seeing and representing the urban scene in Impressionist painting, photography, and stereoscopy. A marvelous history of viewing, Geography of the Gaze will interest everyone from scientists to artists.
National Identity And Geopolitical Visions
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Author : Gertjan Dijkink
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1996
National Identity And Geopolitical Visions written by Gertjan Dijkink and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Ethnopsychology categories.
"National Identity and Geopolitical Visions searches for national orientations in the relationship of a people with the world, a relationship based on the desire for state security and for an influence outside that state." "Through nine country-specific essays - on Germany, Britain, the United States, Argentina, Australia, Russia, Serbia, Iraq and India - the author explores whether there is continuity in national values and foreign policy, and how such geopolitical visions are shaped by national and international events. The pattern is diverse, but geopolitical visions are never the rational evaluation of a country's strategic advantages that the word "geopolitics" suggests."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The True Geography Of Our Country
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Author : Joel Kovarsky
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2014-07-01
The True Geography Of Our Country written by Joel Kovarsky and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with History categories.
A philosopher, architect, astronomer, and polymath, Thomas Jefferson lived at a time when geography was considered the "mother of all sciences." Although he published only a single printed map, Jefferson was also regarded as a geographer, owing to his interest in and use of geographic and cartographic materials during his many careers—attorney, farmer, sometime surveyor, and regional and national politician—and in his twilight years at Monticello. For roughly twenty-five years he was involved in almost all elements of the urban planning of Washington, D.C., and his surveying skills were reflected in his architectural drawings, including those of the iconic grounds of the University of Virginia. He understood maps not only as valuable for planning but as essential for future land claims and development, exploration and navigation, and continental commercial enterprise. In The True Geography of Our Country: Jefferson’s Cartographic Vision, Joel Kovarsky charts the importance of geography and maps as foundational for Jefferson’s lifelong pursuits. Although the world had already seen the Age of Exploration and the great sea voyages of Captain James Cook, Jefferson lived in a time when geography was of primary importance, prefiguring the rapid specializations of the mid- to late-nineteenth-century world. In this illustrated exploration of Jefferson’s passion for geography—including his role in planning the route followed and regions explored by Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery, as well as other expeditions into the vast expanse of the Louisiana Purchase—Kovarsky reveals how geographical knowledge was essential to the manifold interests of the Sage of Monticello.
Geospatial Vision
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Author : Igor Drecki
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-08-12
Geospatial Vision written by Igor Drecki and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-12 with Science categories.
The book comprises a set of chapters relating to research presented at the 4th National Cartographic Conference GeoCart'2008, which was held in Auckland, New Zealand on September 1st to 3rd, 2008. The Conference is endorsed by the International Cartographic Association (ICA). The book delivers a representative, valuable and timely selection of cutting edge research in the fields of cartography and geovisualisation, with contributions from leading researchers worldwide. Each chapter has been reviewed by three international experts. The book incorporates sections on Representation, Egocentric Cartography, Geovisual Exploration of Uncertainty and Terrain, and Web Mapping.
Raising Cartographic Consciousness
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Author : Mark Polelle
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 1999
Raising Cartographic Consciousness written by Mark Polelle and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
In this book, Mark R. Polelle presents an overview of the evolution of geopolitical thought in three national contexts--the United States, Britain, and Germany--from 1870 to the present. Polelle examines in particular the rise of the defense intellectual and shows how the measurement of national power has changed. Geopolitics early in the century assumed the centrality of space and territory, but we close the century with despacialized concerns over geo-economic conflicts (e.g., that between Japan and the United States). Polelle explains this shift by putting it into historical context. His use of both historical and geographical methods makes Raising Cartographic Consciousness a valuable book for historians, geographers, and political scientists.
Apollo S Eye
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Author : Denis Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003-10-17
Apollo S Eye written by Denis Cosgrove and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-17 with History categories.
"Cosgrove's analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the richly complex cosmographic tradition out of which today's geographical imagination has emerged."--BOOK JACKET.
Imperial Visions
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Author : Mark Bassin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-24
Imperial Visions written by Mark Bassin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-24 with History categories.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Russian empire made a dramatic advance on the Pacific by annexing the vast regions of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. Although this remote realm was a virtual terra incognita for the Russian educated public, the acquisition of an 'Asian Mississippi' attracted great attention nonetheless, even stirring the dreams of Russia's most outstanding visionaries. Within a decade of its acquisition, however, the dreams were gone and the Amur region largely abandoned and forgotten. In an innovative examination of Russia's perceptions of the new territories in the Far East, Mark Bassin sets the Amur enigma squarely in the context of the Zeitgeist in Russia at the time. Imperial Visions demonstrates the fundamental importance of geographical imagination in the mentalité of imperial Russia. This 1999 work offers a truly novel perspective on the complex and ambivalent ideological relationship between Russian nationalism, geographical identity and imperial expansion.