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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
417

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Subjects

Cartography, History, Cartography, history, Cartographie, Histoire, Historische Kartographie

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Table of Contents

What is a map?
There are maps, and there are maps
The map as mediation
The raw materials of the map
The printed map
The atlas: a book of maps
Pragmatics of the consultation of the map
Tentative definitions
Graphics, geometry, and figuration
The border and graphic representation
The framework and the Marteloio
Forms and contours of the Earth
Order/disorder: the minimal units of graphics
"Hic sunt leones"
The visible and reason
Maps and writing
The title of the map
Names on the map: toponymy
The map and its legends
The cartographic image: the eye and memory
Imaginary maps: a poetics of the drawing and the gaze
Cartographic reading as construction
Imaginary drifts
From the map to geography: stages of an apprenticeship.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Originally published as L'empire des cartes: Approche théorique de la cartographie à travers histoire, Éditions Albin Michel, 1992"--T.p. verso.

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Dewey Decimal Class
526
Library of Congress
GA201 .J3313 2006, GA201.J3313 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
417

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OL3400090M
ISBN 10
0226389537
LCCN
2005014228
OCLC/WorldCat
60402039
Library Thing
2333955
Goodreads
721122

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