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After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century
Title
After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century / William Rankin.
ISBN
9780226339368
022633936X
9780226339535
Publication
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
vii, 398 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 14, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-375) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Territory and the mapping sciences
I. The international map of the world and the logic of representation. 1. The authority of representation : a single map for all countries, 1891-1939 ; 2. Maps as tools : globalism, regionalism, and the erosion of universal cartography, 1940-1965
II. Cartographic grids and new territories of calculation. 3. Aiming guns, recording land, and stitching map to territory : the invention of cartographic grid systems, 1914-1939 ; 4. Territoriality without borders : global grids and the universal transverse Mercator, 1940-1965
III. Electronic navigation and territorial pointillism. 5. Inhabiting the grid : radionavigation and electronic coordinates, 1920-1965 ; 6. The politics of global coverage : the Navy, NASA, and GPS, 1960-2010
Conclusion: The politics in my pocket.
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