English Maps: A History (The British Library Studies in Map History, V. 2) - Hardcover

Smith, Catherine Delano; Kain, R. J. P.; British Library

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802047424 ISBN 13: 9780802047427

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

In an eagerly anticipated introductory history of English maps, Catherine Delano Smith and Roger Kain adopt the revisionist perspectives of the 'new' history of cartography, and review a broad range of maps from about AD 700 to the beginning of the twentieth century. Their principal objective is to explore the ways in which maps have interacted with society in England's past, to analyse the roles that maps have played and the uses to which they have been put. The authors recognise many connections across the centuries, at the same time avoiding an insular view and noting the influence of on-going intellectual and cartographical developments in the rest of Europe. This is the first full exploration of the political, religious, social, and economic aspects of the map in the history of a nation state. It will be of great interest to political and economic historians as well as to specialists in map history and collectors of maps.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Catherine Delano-Smith is the editor of "Imago Mundi." Roger J.P. Kain is Montefiore Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter.

Dr. Catherine Delano-Smith is Editor of Imago Mundi, the periodical on the history of cartography.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802047424
• ISBN 13: 9780802047427
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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