Time in Maps

From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

Karen Wigen, Caroline Winterer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2020
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-71859-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	24.11.2020
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-226-71859-X / 022671859X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-71859-0 / 9780226718590
Zustand	Neuware