The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography, Tema 2002

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JHU Press, 2002 M10 3 - 331 páginas

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.

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ONE Text and Contexts in the Interpretation of Early Maps
33
TWO Maps Knowledge and Power
51
THREE Silences and Secrecy
83
FOUR Power and Legitimation in the English Geographical
109
Boston Its Environs and Harbour with the Rebels Works
127
W Sculls map of Pennsylvania 1775
137
A model of the world made on the ground by Powhatan Indians
172
Detail from John Smith New England Observed 1616
182
Robert Morden and William Berry A Map of New England
189
SEVEN Can There Be a Cartographic Ethics?
197
Notes
209
Works by J B Harley compiled by Matthew H Edney
281
References
297
Index
323
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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.

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