The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools, which can readily show change over time in space. But long before this software was developed, mapmakers around the world represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in static maps that offer lessons for us today. In this collection, historians Karen Wigen and Caroline Winterer bring together leading scholars to consider how mapmakers depicted time. The essays show that time has often been a major component of what we usually consider to be a spatial medium. Focusing on 500 years of mapmaking in Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.
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Foreword by Abby Smith Rumsey Introduction: Maps Tell Time Caroline Winterer and Kären Wigen Chapter 1: Mapping Time in the Twentieth (and Twenty-First) Century William Rankin Part I: Pacific Asia Chapter 2: Orienting the Past in Early Modern Japan Kären Wigen Chapter 3: Jesuit Maps in China and Korea: Connecting the Past to the Present Richard A. Pegg Part II: The Atlantic World Chapter 4: History in Maps from the Aztec Empire Barbara E. Mundy Chapter 5: Lifting the Veil of Time: Maps, Metaphor, and Antiquarianism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Veronica Della Dora Chapter 6: A Map of Language Daniel Rosenberg Part III: The United States Chapter 7: The First American Maps of Deep Time Caroline Winterer Chapter 8: How Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States Susan Schulten Chapter 9: Time, Travel, and Mapping the Landscapes of War James R. Akerman  Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
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"Thought-provoking. . . . This scholarly work provides an intriguing, unique way to consider maps. Recommended for those who like cartography and history."

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ISBN
9780226718590
Publisert
2020-11-20
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Chicago Press
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
210 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
272

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Biographical note

Karen Wigen is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University. Caroline Winterer is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University.