Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Part I Mapping Urban Spaces.- A View of Dubrovnik as a Spectacle: Presentations of the Dubrovnik Earthquake of 1667 in European Commercial Cartography.- Mapping the metropolis: analysing map production in Lyon and S o Paulo on the first half of the 20th century.- Part II Territory, Sovereignty and Borderlands.- Between Secrecy and Silent Cooperation - The Dissemination of Knowledge about the Republic of Dubrovnik in the Context of the Ottoman-Venetian and Napoleonic Wars.- Cartographic exchange and territorial creation: rewriting northern Japan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.- Part III Map Production and Dissemination of Knowledge.- 'Back to the Drawing Board': map-making and the Royal Geographical Society 1831-1990.- Historiographic Mapping of 7th c. BC Egypt: the obliteration of historical complexity.- Part IV Libraries, Accessibility and Specific Cartographic Resources.- Improving User Access to Soviet Military Mapping: A Guide for Map Libraries around the Globe.- User-Centred Design of a Collaborative, Object Oriented Historical GIS-Platform.
Synopsis
Presents previously unavailable information on the dissemination of cartographic knowledge from the 18th to the 20th century, including previously unpublished maps Reports on the results of new research projects pursued by internationally respected experts on the history of cartography at tertiary institutions around the globe Offers a multidisciplinary approach