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Time in Maps : From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era
Title
Time in Maps : From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era / ed. by Caroline Winterer, Kären Wigen.
ISBN
9780226718620
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (272 p.) : 25 color plates, 80 maps
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today's digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Maps Tell Time
1 Mapping Time in the Twentieth (and Twenty-First) Century
Part I Pacific Asia
2 Orienting the Past in Early Modern Japan
3 Jesuit Maps in China and Korea: Connecting the Past to the Present
Part II The Atlantic World
4 History in Maps from the Aztec Empire
5 Lifting the Veil of Time: Maps, Metaphor, and Antiquarianism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
6 A Map of Language
Part III The United States
7 The First American Maps of Deep Time
8 How Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States
9 Time, Travel, and Mapping the Landscapes of War
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Index
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