Mapping The Past
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Maps And History
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Author : Jeremy Black
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Maps And History written by Jeremy Black and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with History categories.
Explores the role, development, and nature of the atlas and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.
Mapping The Nation
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Author : Susan Schulten
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-06-29
Mapping The Nation written by Susan Schulten 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 2012-06-29 with Technology & Engineering categories.
“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.
Placing History
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Author : Anne Kelly Knowles
language : en
Publisher: ESRI, Inc.
Release Date : 2008
Placing History written by Anne Kelly Knowles and has been published by ESRI, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
CD-ROM contains: Four Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and interactive mapping exercises, some of which extend the scholarly material and addresses new issues related to historical GIS.
Cognitive Mapping
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Author : Scott Freundschuh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-24
Cognitive Mapping written by Scott Freundschuh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-24 with Health & Fitness categories.
This important work brings together international academics from a variety of disciplines to explore the topic of spatial cognition on a 'geographic' scale. It provides an overview of the historical origins of the subject, a description of current debates and suggests directions for future research.
The Landscape Of History
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Author : John Lewis Gaddis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2004
The Landscape Of History written by John Lewis Gaddis and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. So who's really being scientific and who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores, in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy. Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch and E.H. Carr, The Landscape of History is at once an engaging introduction to the historical method for beginners, a powerful reaffirmation of it for practitioners, a startling challenge to social scientists, and an effective skewering of post-modernist claims that we can't know anything at all about the past. It will be essential reading for anyone who reads, writes, teaches, or cares about history.
Past Time Past Place
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Author : Anne Kelly Knowles
language : en
Publisher: Esri Press
Release Date : 2002
Past Time Past Place written by Anne Kelly Knowles and has been published by Esri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Computers categories.
Collects essays about historical questions that can now be answered through geographic information systems, as well as the problems and limitations of using GIS technology.
Mapping The Past
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Author : Charles Drazin
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-08-25
Mapping The Past written by Charles Drazin and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with History categories.
‘Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up? Well?’ 'A Royal Engineer, Daddy. A Royal Engineer!’ Charles Drazin knew little about his mother's father – only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. But when his mother was told that she was dying, it prompted recollections of her early life that she had never confided before: of the village in the west of Ireland where she had grown up, and of her father, whose death changed the life of an eight-year-old girl for ever. Soon afterwards her own death left her son to go through alone the relics of her life. They included a box of old photographs, a battered suitcase stamped with the initials of the grandfather he had never known, and the service records of Patrick’s brothers, who, like him, had all enlisted in the Royal Engineers as the nineteenth century became the twentieth. So began an extraordinary journey of discovery that took him from the age of Queen Victoria to the battlefields of the Western Front. Mapping the Past is the story of five brothers who, mapping the world, lived up to the Royal Engineers’ motto of Everywhere. It is the story of Ireland, and of the Empire from which it broke away. It is the story of conflict, war and its aftermath. And, most of all, it is the story of memory, endlessly carrying the past, for better or worse, into our present and future. It is an imaginative, intimate and powerful work of history, by a writer of rare power.
Mapping The Global Past
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Author : Mark Newman
language : en
Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
Release Date : 1998
Mapping The Global Past written by Mark Newman and has been published by Bedford/st Martins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Global Past And Mapping The Global Past Volume 1 Volume 2
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Author : St Martins Press
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-09-15
Global Past And Mapping The Global Past Volume 1 Volume 2 written by St Martins Press and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-15 with categories.
Moving beyond Eurocentric paradigms, The Global Past provides a new and better model for teaching world history, with extensive and integrated treatment of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To provide students with a coherent framework, it places key historical themes within a chronological structure that helps students make comparisons and see connections across time and place.
Time Maps
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Author : Eviatar Zerubavel
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-06-12
Time Maps written by Eviatar Zerubavel 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 2012-06-12 with Social Science categories.
The pioneering sociologist and author of The Seven Day Circle continues his analysis of time with this fascinating look at history as social construct. Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors? As Eviatar Zerubavel demonstrates in Time Maps, we cannot answer burning questions such as these without a deeper understanding of how we envision the past. In a pioneering attempt to map the structure of collective memory, Zerubavel considers the cognitive patterns we use to organize the past and the social grammar of conflicting interpretations of history. Drawing on fascinating examples that range from Hiroshima to the Holocaust, and from ancient Egypt to the former Yugoslavia, Zerubavel shows how we construct historical origins; how we tie discontinuous events together into stories; how we link families and entire nations through genealogies; and how we separate distinct historical periods from one another through watersheds, such as the invention of fire or the fall of the Berlin Wall. "Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clichés about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history…brilliant and elegant."-Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz