The new nature of maps : essays in the history of cartography
Title:
The new nature of maps : essays in the history of cartography
Author:
Harley, J. B. (John Brian)
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Edition:
Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition.
Publication Information:
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
©2001
Physical Description:
xv, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Plates, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia."
Language:
English
Contents:
Texts and contexts in the interpretation of early maps -- Maps, knowledge, and power -- Silences and secrecy: the hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe -- Power and legitimation in the English geographical atlases of the eighteenth century -- Deconstructing the map -- New England cartography and the Native Americans -- Can there be a cartographic ethics?
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ISBN:
9780801870903
9780801865664
Format :
Book
