Year: 2019 Language: english Author: Matthew H. Edney Genre: History Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226605548 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 324 Description: The author is the director of a project that has produced this volume, thus he has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Matthew H. Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this argument, the author chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
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Cartography, The Ideal and Its History
Language: english
Author: Matthew H. Edney
Genre: History
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226605548
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 324
Description: The author is the director of a project that has produced this volume, thus he has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Matthew H. Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this argument, the author chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
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