[PDF] Mapping The World eBook

Author : Ralph E. Ehrenberg
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :

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"This book highlights more than a hundred maps from every era and every part of the world. Organized chronologically, they display an astonishing variety of cartographic styles and techniques. They range from priceless artistic masterworks like the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, the first to use the name "America, " to such practical artifacts as a Polynesian stick chart, a creation of bent twigs, seashells, and coconut palms that was nevertheless capable of guiding an outrigger canoe safely across thousands of miles of trackless and seemingly endless ocean. Some, like the portolans, or sea charts, of the Age of Discovery, were closely guarded state secrets that shaped the rise and fall of empires; others circulated widely and showed such fabled routes as the Silk Road across western Asia and the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails that opened up the American West."--Jacket.

Author : Caroline Laffon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781554077816

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An illustrated history of cartogrphy and what it reveals about the world around us.

Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1848608659

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`Using up-to-date data, modern cartographic methods, and an approach that addresses students' everyday lives, Danny Dorling has produced an engaging introduction to the contemporary geography of the UK. It will be the focus of many lively discussions of patterns and trends’ - Ron Johnston, School of Geography, University of Bristol Using statistics from many sources in an engaging and accessible way, Human Geography of the UK is written from the perspective of a beginning undergraduate, it's objective is to define the key elements of population geography and show how they fit together. Highly visual – with maps and figures on every page – the text uses different data to describe the social landscape of the United Kingdom. Organized in ten short thematic chapters, explaining the nuts and bolts of population, including: birth, inequality; education; mobility; work; and mortality. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of UK in global context. Human Geography of the UK features practical exercises, and clear summaries in tables and specially drawn maps.

Author : Sylvia A. Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0689818130

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A history of mapmaking showing how maps both reflect and change people's view of the world.

Author : Grolier
Publisher : Grolier, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780717256198

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A eight volume reference set that provides a history of map making, describes the different types of maps, their purpose and the techniques used to make them, plus the meaning of some of the symbols and how to use them to read maps.

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Andre Deutsch
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780233004396

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From the crude maps of ancient Babylon to the satellite-fueled precision of Google Maps, cartography has been both a record of dreams and of discoveries. Maps have played midwife to empires, helped win wars, and encouraged humanity to venture beyond boundaries of space and time. Containing numerous maps from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society, Mapping the World tells the story of the philosophers, explorers, artists, and scientists who brought together their skills to produce some of the most intriguing artifacts ever created.

Author : James R. Akerman
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :

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Introducing readers to a wide range of maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures, this book confirms the vital roles of maps throughout history in commerce, art, literature, and national identity.

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Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805061789

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After learning about maps in school, Lisa maps all the favorite places of her dog Penny.

Author : Susan Schulten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0226740706

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“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.

Author : Emanuel Deutschmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691226504

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A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it really a fully globalized world in which everything is linked, as popular catchphrases like “global village” suggest? Through a sweeping comparative analysis of eight types of mobility and communication among countries worldwide—from migration and tourism to Facebook friendships and phone calls—Mapping the Transnational World demonstrates that our behavior is actually regionalized, not globalized. Emanuel Deutschmann shows that transnational activity within world regions is not so much the outcome of political, cultural, or economic factors, but is driven primarily by geographic distance. He explains that the spatial structure of transnational human activity follows a simple mathematical function, the power law, a pattern that also fits the movements of many other animal species on the planet. Moreover, this pattern remained extremely stable during the five decades studied—1960 to 2010. Unveiling proximity-induced regionalism as a major feature of planet-scale networks of transnational human activity, Deutschmann provides a crucial corrective to several fields of research. Revealing why a truly global society is unlikely to emerge, Mapping the Transnational World highlights the essential role of interaction beyond borders on a planet that remains spatially fragmented.