A History of Spaces : Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World
by
John Pickles
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0415144973
ISBN-13
9780415144971
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 9th, 2003
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
567 grams
Product Classification:
Geodesy & surveying for maps & charts
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This book provides an insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live.
This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live.
Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography, the book draws on examples of the use of maps from the sixteenth century to the present, including their role in projects of the national and colonial state, emergent capitalism and the planetary consciousness of the natural sciences. It also considers the use of maps for military purposes, maps that have coded modern conceptions of health, disease and social character, and maps of the transparent human body and the transparent earth.
Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography, the book draws on examples of the use of maps from the sixteenth century to the present, including their role in projects of the national and colonial state, emergent capitalism and the planetary consciousness of the natural sciences. It also considers the use of maps for military purposes, maps that have coded modern conceptions of health, disease and social character, and maps of the transparent human body and the transparent earth.
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