Cartography: The Ideal and Its History 9780226605715, 9780226605685, 9780226605548, 022660571X

"In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of 'cartography' to argue that th

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Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
9780226605715, 9780226605685, 9780226605548, 022660571X

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and

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Originally published in the UK in 1961 this was an unconventional book when first published but a powerful interpretatio

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Explore the beauty and awe of the heavens through the rich celestial prints and star atlases offered in this third editi

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The essays in this informative book were originally delivered as the Jowett Lectures for 1906. They address many critica

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In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped dis

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Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histo

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This book presents the first in-depth discussion of how specific geographical and historical conditions shape the way in

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