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1 online resource |
| Series |
Lecture notes in geoinformation and cartography. Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA), 2195-1705 |
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Lecture notes in geoinformation and cartography. Subseries: Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA)
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| Contents |
Part I -- The Far East:- Sketching Layers in Japan: Mineral Wealth, Geo-bodies and Imperial Territory:- Putting America's First Empire on the Map: American Early Efforts to Map the Philippine Islands:- The Exploration and Survey of the Outlying Islands of the Dutch East Indies:- A View from Inside: Chinese Mapping of the World Against the Backdrop of Colonial Experience:- Part II -- The Middle East and India:- French Cartographic Services in the Levant: Putting Syria and Lebanon on the Map of the Empire:- Surveying Empires: Archaeologies of Colonial Cartography and the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India:- War Cartography in the Survey of India, 1920-1946:- Part III -- Mapping the World:- Red Star to Red Lion: The Soviet Military Mapping of Oxford:- Maps Against Imperialism: Frank Horrabin and Alexander Radó's Atlases in the Interwar Period:- Empire as Spectacle: Harmsworth's Atlas of the World and Pictorial Gazetteer with an Atlas of the Great War:- Part IV -- Mapping Boundaries:- Mapping Changes in Ottoman-Austrian Borders during the Eighteenth Century:- Lines on the Map: International Boundaries:- Part V -- Toponyms:- German Names in the Kilimanjaro Region:- The French Map of Beirut (1936):- Part VI -- Mapmakers:- Military or Missionary Map? The First Topographic Map of Northern New Spain (1725-1729):- 'Dead on Arrival': The Unused Cartographic Legacy of Carl Friedrich Reimer:- Head-hunters, Cannibals and Pirates: Surveying in the 1960s |
| Summary |
This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The overall conference theme was 'Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea'. The book presents a breadth of original research undertaken by internationally recognized authors in the field of historical cartography and offers a significant contribution to the development of this growing field and to many interdisciplinary aspects of geography, history and the geographic information sciences. It is intended for researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 13, 2019) |
| Subject |
Cartography -- History -- Congresses
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Imperialism -- Congresses
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Colonies -- Maps -- History -- Congresses
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Cartography
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Imperialism
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kent, Alexander, 1977- editor.
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Vervust, Soetkin, editor.
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Demhardt, Imre Josef, editor.
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Millea, Nick, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030234478 |
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3030234479 |
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3030234460 |
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9783030234461 |
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9783030234485 |
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3030234487 |
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9783030234492 |
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3030234495 |
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