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After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century / William Rankin.
Author
Rankin, William, 1978-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
©2016
Description
vii, 398 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GA102.3 .R36 2016
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Subject(s)
Cartography
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History
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20th century
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Navigation
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History
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20th century
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Grids (Cartography)
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History
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20th century
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Global Positioning System
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History
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Electronics in navigation
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History
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Universal transverse Mercator projection (Cartography)
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History
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Maps
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Political aspects
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20th century
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Cartography
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Methodology
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International map of the world 1:1,000,000
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History
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Summary note
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a "map-minded age," where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century's end, however, there had been a decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems. In After the Map, William Rankin argues that although this shift did no render traditional maps obsolete, it did radically change our experience of geographic knowledge, from the god's-eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS. Likewise, older concerns with geographic truth and objectivity have been upstaged by a new emphasis on simplicity, reliability, and convenience. After the Map shows how this change in geographic perspective is ultimately a transformation of the nature of territory, both social and political. --Dust jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-375) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Territory and the mapping sciences
I. The international map of the world and the logic of representation. 1. The authority of representation : a single map for all countries, 1891-1939 ; 2. Maps as tools : globalism, regionalism, and the erosion of universal cartography, 1940-1965
II. Cartographic grids and new territories of calculation. 3. Aiming guns, recording land, and stitching map to territory : the invention of cartographic grid systems, 1914-1939 ; 4. Territoriality without borders : global grids and the universal transverse Mercator, 1940-1965
III. Electronic navigation and territorial pointillism. 5. Inhabiting the grid : radionavigation and electronic coordinates, 1920-1965 ; 6. The politics of global coverage : the Navy, NASA, and GPS, 1960-2010
Conclusion: The politics in my pocket.
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ISBN
9780226339368 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
022633936X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780226600536 ((paper))
022660053X ((paper))
LCCN
2015037815
OCLC
919341737
Other standard number
12586408
International Article Number
9780226339368
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