New Nature of Maps

Essays in the History of Cartography (Revised)
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7090-3
Verlag: Hopkins Fulfillment Service

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional, "positivist" model of cartography, replacing it with one that is grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps. He defines a map as a "social construction" and argues that maps are not simple representations of reality but exert profound influences upon the way space is conceptualized and organized. A central theme is the way in which power—whether military, political, religious, or economic—becomes inscribed on the land through cartography. In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harley, J B

Laxton, Paul

Weitere Mitwirkende

Andrews, J. H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Meaning, Knowledge, and Power in the Map Philosophy of J.B. Harley, by J. H. Andrews
1. Text and Contexts in the Interpretation of Early Maps
2. Maps, Knowledge, and Power
3. Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe
4. Power and Legitimation in the English Geographical Atlases of the Eighteenth Century
5. Deconstructing the Map
6. New England Cartography and the Native Americans
7. Can There Be a Cartographic Ethics

Über Autor(innen)

Harley, J B
J. B. Harley lectured in historical geography at the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His ideas on the meaning of maps have influenced not just geographers and map historians but also students of art history and literature. At Milwaukee he began, with David Woodward, the multivolume History of Cartography, the first volume of which was published in 1987.

Andrews, J. H.
J. H. Andrews is a retired professor of geography at Trinity College, Dublin and author of A Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Shapes of Ireland.

Laxton, Paul
Paul Laxton lectured in the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool for more than thirty years. He is now an independent scholar.

J. B. Harley lectured in historical geography at the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His ideas on the meaning of maps have influenced not just geographers and map historians but also students of art history and literature. At Milwaukee he began, with David Woodward, the multivolume History of Cartography, the first volume of which was published in 1987. Paul Laxton lectured in the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool for more than thirty years. He is now an independent scholar. J. H. Andrews is a retired professor of geography at Trinity College, Dublin and author of A Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Shapes of Ireland.