Time in Maps

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From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

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Time in Maps explores how early modern mapmakers represented the concept of time and its passage through their maps. The book delves into various historical maps and atlases, revealing how these tools reflected cultural and scientific shifts. It offers insights into the relationship between temporal change and geographic representation during that era.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by how cartography has shaped historical narratives and cultural perceptions. It offers insightful explorations of how maps have been used to represent and influence the understanding of time and history, blending intriguing historical analysis with rich illustrations. Whether you are a history enthusiast or a map aficionado, this work unveils the profound connection between cartography and our comprehension of the world.

Time in Maps

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Maps organise us in space, but they also organise us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways.

Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, 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 defence of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin.

With more than one hundred colour maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.

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Time in Maps is praised for its innovative approach to examining how maps account for time, with many well-reproduced maps and illustrations. Reviews highlight the book's scholarly depth in exploring historical and global cartography's depiction of temporal dimensions. The essays collectively underscore the diversity of static maps in representing time and offer valuable insights for not only cartographic scholars but also general readers interested in the historical significance and evolution of maps.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226718590

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 November 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Illustration: Illustrations, unspecified

Contributors:

Edited by Karen Wigen
Edited by Caroline Winterer

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 272

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Education & Reference History & Military Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

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.