Maps of War, Jeremy Black

Автор: Jeremy Black
Название: Maps of War
ISBN: 1844863441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844863440
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Цена: 29700 T
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Описание: A magnificent visual survey of how conflict was recorded and planned, using maps produced at the time to reveal how warfare and its documentation has changed over the centuries.

Автор: Akerman James, Karrow Robert W. Jr.
Название: Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
ISBN: 0226010759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226010755
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 77440.00 T
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Описание: Presents an examination of the use of maps for wayfinding. This book considers maps whose makers employed the smallest of scales to envision the broadest of human stages. It looks at maps that are at the opposite end of the scale from cosmological and world maps. It shows ways in which certain maps can be linked to particular events in history.

Автор: Dolan Allison, Family Tree Magazine Editors
Название: The Family Tree Historical Maps Book - Europe: A Country-By-Country Atlas of European History, 1700s-1900s
ISBN: 1440342040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440342042
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 24510.00 T
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Описание: This country-by-country atlas is an indispensable tool for European genealogy. Put your ancestral origins in geographical context, unravel the boundary changes that trip up genealogists, and envision the old country as your ancestors knew it. Time travel across the continent with the Family Tree Historical Maps Book: Europe.

Название: Antique Maps
ISBN: 0714829544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714829548
Издательство: Phaidon Press Ltd.
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Цена: 18950.00 T
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Описание: This is a standard reference work, incorporating a general historical background, methods of map making, practical advice on collecting old maps and a list of the major map makers. Organized country by country, it refers to over 600 cartographers active between 1450 and 1850.

Автор: Wigen Karen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Karacas Cary
Название: Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps
ISBN: 022607305X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226073057
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 37750.00 T
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Описание: Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old castle plans and village cadasters. Pioneering surveyors are featured in popular television shows, and avid collectors covet exquisite scrolls depicting sea and land routes. Today, Japanese people are zealous producers and consumers of cartography, and maps are an integral part of daily life.

But this was not always the case: a thousand years ago, maps were solely a privilege of the ruling elite in Japan. Only in the past four hundred years has Japanese cartography truly taken off, and between the dawn of Japan's cartographic explosion and today, the nation's society and landscape have undergone major transformations. At every point, maps have documented those monumental changes. Cartographic Japan offers a rich introduction to the resulting treasure trove, with close analysis of one hundred maps from the late 1500s to the present day, each one treated as a distinctive window onto Japan's tumultuous history.

Forty-seven distinguished contributors--hailing from Japan, North America, Europe, and Australia--uncover the meanings behind a key selection of these maps, situating them in historical context and explaining how they were made, read, and used at the time. With more than one hundred gorgeous full-color illustrations, Cartographic Japan offers an enlightening tour of Japan's magnificent cartographic archive.

Автор: Pinto Karen C.
Название: Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration
ISBN: 022612696X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226126968
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 54910.00 T
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Описание: Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies to the enduring importance of these medieval visions for the Muslim cartographic imagination. With Medieval Islamic Maps, historian Karen C. Pinto brings us the first in-depth exploration of medieval Islamic cartography from the mid-tenth to the nineteenth century.

Pinto focuses on the distinct tradition of maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS), examining them from three distinct angles--iconography, context, and patronage. She untangles the history of the KMMS maps, traces their inception and evolution, and analyzes them to reveal the identities of their creators, painters, and patrons, as well as the vivid realities of the social and physical world they depicted. In doing so, Pinto develops innovative techniques for approaching the visual record of Islamic history, explores how medieval Muslims perceived themselves and their world, and brings Middle Eastern maps into the forefront of the study of the history of cartography.