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Historical atlas of the Holy Lands.
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ISBN: 0816052190 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Checkmark

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Abraham Ortelius, 1527-1598 : life, works, sources and friends
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ISBN: 9789090294865 9090294864 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bilthoven Cartographica Neerlandica

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Creating the Mediterranean : maps and the islamic imagination
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ISBN: 9789004346192 9004346198 9789004347380 9004347380 Year: 2017 Volume: 119 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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In Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination Tarek Kahlaoui treats the subject of the Islamic visual representations of the Mediterranean. It tracks the history of the Islamic visualization of the sea from when geography was created by the Islamic state’s bureaucrats of the tenth century C.E. located mainly in the central Islamic lands, to the later men of the field, specifically the sea captains from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries C.E. located in the western Islamic lands. A narrative has emerged from this investigation in which the metamorphosis of the identity of the author or mapmaker seemed to be changing with the rest of the elements that constitute the identity of a map: its reader or viewer, its style and structure, and its textual content.


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Mapping the Country of Regions : The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia
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ISBN: 9781469628936 1469628937 9781469627441 9781469627465 1469627469 9781469627458 1469627450 1469627442 9798890849175 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : The University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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The 19th century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than 30 provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition.


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Geschiedenis en ontwerp : handboek voor de omgang met cultureel erfgoed
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ISBN: 9789460040504 Year: 2010 Publisher: Nijmegen Vantilt

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Geschiedenis en ontwerp onderzoekt de vele mogelijkheden die er zijn om cultureel erfgoed te betrekken in plannen en ontwerpen voor de toekomst. Niet alles hoeft noodzakelijkerwijs te worden bewaard, geïnventariseerd of op monumentenlijsten geplaatst. In sommige gevallen kan sloop juist een bevrijding zijn. Om een gewetensvolle omgang met erfgoed te verankeren in de ruimtelijke inrichting is allereerst een toegankelijke kennisinfrastructuur van groot belang. Daarnaast is een praktische 'gereedschapskist' nodig voor de omgang met erfgoed in de planvorming, het ruimtelijk ontwerp en het erfgoedbeleid. Een dergelijk fundament – in dit handboek geschraagd door beschouwingen van 25 deskundige auteurs van uiteenlopende universiteiten – biedt inzicht in de mogelijkheden om in transformatieopgaven draden te spannen tussen verleden en toekomst, tussen geschiedenis en ontwerp. Dat is een avontuurlijke onderneming, waarbij wetenschap, erfgoed en ruimtelijke ordening niet zonder elkaar kunnen


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Atlas militaires manuscrits (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) : villes et territoires des ingénieurs du roi
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ISBN: 9782717726763 2717726764 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France,

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Aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, tandis que les grands ateliers cartographiques européens s’affairent à l’édition de luxueuses séries d’atlas universels pour leur clientèle la plus fortunée, c’est au plus près du terrain que les ingénieurs militaires façonnent patiemment leur propre conception de l’atlas militaire manuscrit, à bien des égards plus intimiste et secrète. Si leurs ouvrages se définissent toujours comme des « livres reliés de cartes et plans », ils adoptent des formes infiniment diverses, allant du simple « ramas » de documents utile à l’exercice de la profession à la « visite de places » commandée par l’administration militaire, en passant par le somptueux recueil dédicatoire. Dessinés à la plume et souvent rehaussés de lavis, ces recueils, conçus à des fins stratégiques, dressent le portrait inédit et toujours confondant de précision de provinces, païs, villes fortifiées et ouvrages militaires tour à tour défendus ou convoités par l’État monarchique. Cet ouvrage abondamment illustré, qui réunit une étude historique et un catalogue raisonné complété d’index de lieux et d’auteurs, présente pour la première fois, planche par planche, l’un des gisements cartographiques d’Ancien Régime les plus exceptionnels qui soient conservés dans les fonds d’Île-de-France. Instrument de recherche inestimable pour l’histoire des villes, de l’architecture et des territoires, il éclaire l’ensemble des processus de réformation orchestrés en France entre les règnes d’Henri IV et de Louis XV, tout en faisant la part belle aux pays européens et aux États du Levant.


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Renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human : new worlds, maps and monsters
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ISBN: 9781108431828 9781107036673 1108431828 1107036674 1316547442 1316547116 1316547779 1316549429 1316548104 1139568124 131654513X 9781316548103 9781316549421 9781139568128 9781316549094 1316549097 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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"Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could - or should - be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion"--

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Cartography --- Geography --- Monsters --- Symbolic aspects of monsters --- Symbolism --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- History --- Sociological aspects --- Symbolic aspects --- 912:325 --- 912:930 --- 930.85 "15/17" --- 391/397 --- 391/397 Ethnografie --- Ethnografie --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- 930.85 "15/17" Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- 912:930 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- 912:930 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- 912:325 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- 912:325 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Western Hemisphere --- Cartography - Europe - History - 16th century --- Cartography - Europe - History - 17th century --- Geography - Sociological aspects --- Monsters - Symbolic aspects --- Western Hemisphere - Maps --- Sociological aspects. --- Hemisphere, Western --- New World --- Earth (Planet)


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Maps and travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period : knowledge, imagination, and visual culture
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ISBN: 9783110587333 9783110587418 9783110588774 3110588773 3110587416 3110587335 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.


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Orbis disciplinae : hommages en l'honneur de Patrick Gautier Dalché
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ISBN: 9782503567051 2503567053 Year: 2017 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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L'ouvrage réunit trente-six articles offerts à Patrick Gautier Dalché par ses amis, ses élèves et ses collègues à l'occasion de son départ en retraite. Pour rendre hommage à ses travaux, qui ont renouvelé les recherches sur l'histoire des perceptions et représentations de l'espace, les éditeurs ont souhaité rassembler des contributions qui pour l'essentiel s'incrivent dans cette même perspective, traitant des représentations spatiales aussi bien textuelles que cartographiques, savantes ou empiriques, dans la longue période de lui-même étudie, allant de l'Antiquité tardive au XVIe siècle.

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