The New Nature Of Maps
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The New Nature Of Maps
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Author : J. B. Harley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2002-10-03
The New Nature Of Maps written by J. B. Harley and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-03 with History categories.
In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.
The History Of Cartography
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Author : John Brian Harley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The History Of Cartography written by John Brian Harley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Cartography categories.
When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark History of Cartography series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J.B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the larger renaissance in map studies that the series would inspire. But as the renown of the series and the comprehensiveness and acuity of the present volume demonstrate, the history of cartography has proven to be unexpectedly fertile ground.--Amazon.com.
Flight Maps Adventures With Nature In Modern America
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Author : Jennifer Jaye Price
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-04-22
Flight Maps Adventures With Nature In Modern America written by Jennifer Jaye Price and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-22 with Nature categories.
A quirky, brilliant debut book that explores the evolution of our relationship to nature and the ways in which we attach meaning to it today. "Flight Maps" should find its place on any bookshelf with the likes of David Quammen and John McPhee.
Mapping Nature Across The Americas
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Author : Kathleen A. Brosnan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-10-19
Mapping Nature Across The Americas written by Kathleen A. Brosnan 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 2021-10-19 with History categories.
Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, they are abstractions that capture someone’s idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. These very characteristics, however, give maps their importance for understanding how humans have interacted with the natural world, and give historical maps, especially, the power to provide rich insights into the relationship between humans and nature over time. That is just what is achieved in Mapping Nature across the Americas. Illustrated throughout, the essays in this book argue for greater analysis of historical maps in the field of environmental history, and for greater attention within the field of the history of cartography to the cultural constructions of nature contained within maps. This volume thus provides the first in-depth and interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental knowledge in the Americas—including, for example, stories of indigenous cartography in Mexico, the allegorical presence of palm trees in maps of Argentina, the systemic mapping of US forests, and the scientific platting of Canada’s remote lands.
Shapes Of Ireland
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Author : John Harwood Andrews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Shapes Of Ireland written by John Harwood Andrews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The Nature Of Maps
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Author : Arthur Howard Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976-01-01
The Nature Of Maps written by Arthur Howard Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with Science categories.
An introduction to a theory of cartography, attempting clear notions of the characteristics and processes by which a map acquires meaning from its maker and evokes meaning in its user
The Natures Of Maps
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Author : Denis Wood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Natures Of Maps written by Denis Wood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
The authors demonstrate that maps of the natural, physical world are just as culturally and socially constructed as any map of property or territory.
Rethinking Maps
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Author : Martin Dodge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-06-02
Rethinking Maps written by Martin Dodge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-02 with Science categories.
Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It offers a contemporary assessment of the diverse forms that mapping now takes and, drawing upon a number of theoretic perspectives and disciplines, provides an insightful commentary on new ontological and epistemological thinking with respect to cartography. This book presents a diverse set of approaches to a wide range of map forms and activities in what is presently a rapidly changing field. It employs a multi-disciplinary approach to important contemporary mapping practices, with chapters written by leading theorists who have an international reputation for innovative thinking. Much of the new research around mapping is emerging as critical dialogue between practice and theory and this book has chapters focused on intersections with play, race and cinema. Other chapters discuss cartographic representation, sustainable mapping and visual geographies. It also considers how alternative models of map creation and use such as open-source mappings and map mash-up are being creatively explored by programmers, artists and activists. There is also an examination of the work of various ‘everyday mappers’ in diverse social and cultural contexts. This blend of conceptual chapters and theoretically directed case studies provides an excellent resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, GIScience and cartography, visual anthropology, media studies, graphic design and computer graphics. Rethinking Maps is a necessary and significant text for all those studying or having an interest in cartography.
When Maps Become The World
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Author : Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-06-29
When Maps Become The World written by Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther 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 2020-06-29 with Philosophy categories.
Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives—they become reality, and they can remake the world.
The New Nature Writing
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Author : Jos Smith
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-05-04
The New Nature Writing written by Jos Smith and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as 'The New Nature Writing'. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment-focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary energy around the cultures of landscape and place is the outcome of a long-standing relationship between environmentalism and the arts. Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, ecocriticism and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such writers as Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, Tim Robinson and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these authors have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising growth of “clone town Britain.”