Time in maps : from the Age of Discovery to our digital era / edited by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
©2020
xiv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
"The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools that can readily show change over time in space. But long before such software became available, mapmakers regularly represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in supposedly static maps, and even those maps presented as historical snapshot illustrate the centrality of time to what we think of as primarily a spatial medium. In this collection, an array of today's leading scholars consider how mapmakers in a variety of contexts depicted time in their creations--from 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 includes a theoretical salvo and defense of traditional paper maps by William Rankin--himself a distinguished digital mapmaker--and includes more than 100 maps and related visuals, all in full color"-- Provided by publisher.
9780226718590 hardcover
022671859X hardcover
electronic book
9780226718620
Cartography History Congresses.
Time in cartography Congresses.
Cartographie Histoire Congrès.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography.
Time in cartography.
Cartography.
Congress
Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Actes de congrès.
Wigen, Kären, 1958- editor.
Winterer, Caroline, 1966- editor.
David Rumsey Map Center, host institution.
Location: Library main 308795
Call No.: BIB 254126
Status: Available
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