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Title:

Mappings / edited by Denis Cosgrove.

Publisher:

Reaktion Books,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

viii, 311 p. : ill., maps, plans, 24 cm.

Subject:

Human geography--Philosophy.
Cartography--History.
Culture.
Civilization, Modern.
Culture.
Cartography--History.
Civilization, Modern.
Human geography--Philosophy.

Other Authors:

Cosgrove, Denis E.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Mapping in the mind: the Earth from ancient Alexandria / Christian Jacob -- Mapping Eden: cartographies of the earthly paradise / Alessandro Scafi -- Terrestrial globalism: mapping the globe in early modern Europe / Jerry Brotton -- Mapping places: chorography and vision in the renaissance / Lucia Nuti -- Mapping, the body and desire: Christopher Packe's chorography of Kent / Michael Charlesworth -- Dark with excess of bright: mapping the coastlines of knowledge / Paul Carter -- Mapping tropical waters: British views and visions of Rio de Janeiro / Luciana de Lima Martins -- Mapping modernity: utopia and communications networks / Armand Mattelart -- The uses of cartographic literacy: mapping, survey and citizenship in twentieth-century Britain / David Matless -- The agency of mapping: speculation, critique and invention / James Corner -- Mapping and the expanded field of contemporary art / Wystan Curnow.

Series:

Critical views

ISBN:

9781861890214 (pbk)
1861890214 (pbk)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41273126

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)