Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West : Regional Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2017
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Book Details
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Delivery in 28 days
This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th-20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the focus was on points of contact between Western and Asian cartographic history. Geographically, the topics were limited to South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, with special attention to India, China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. Topics addressed included Asia''s place in the world, the Dutch East India Company, toponymy, Philipp Franz von Siebold, maritime cartography, missionary mapping and cadastral mapping.
Get Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG and it has pages.
