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- catalog abstract ""Focusing on historical examples and the practices of modern cartography, J.B. Harley (1932-1991) offers an alternative to the dominant view that Western cartography since the Renaissance has been a progressive technological, scientific, and objective trajectory of development. This traditional view asserts that maps produce an accurate relational model of terrain and, as such, epitomize representational modernism, which is rooted in the project of the Enlightenment; in sum, maps banish subjectivity from the image. Accordingly, cartographers have promoted a standard scientific model for their discipline, one in which a mirror of nature can be projected through geometry and measurement. Cartographers often mistakenly assess early maps by this modern yardstick, excising from the accepted canon of mapping not only maps from the premodern era but also those from other cultures that do not match Western notions of accuracy."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Essays in the history of cartography".
- catalog contributor b12330946.
- catalog contributor b12330947.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Focusing on historical examples and the practices of modern cartography, J.B. Harley (1932-1991) offers an alternative to the dominant view that Western cartography since the Renaissance has been a progressive technological, scientific, and objective trajectory of development. This traditional view asserts that maps produce an accurate relational model of terrain and, as such, epitomize representational modernism, which is rooted in the project of the Enlightenment; in sum, maps banish subjectivity from the image. Accordingly, cartographers have promoted a standard scientific model for their discipline, one in which a mirror of nature can be projected through geometry and measurement. Cartographers often mistakenly assess early maps by this modern yardstick, excising from the accepted canon of mapping not only maps from the premodern era but also those from other cultures that do not match Western notions of accuracy."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-322) and index.".
- catalog description "Texts and contexts in the interpretation of early maps -- Maps, knowledge, and power -- Silences and secrecy: the hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe -- Power and legitimation in the English geographical atlases of the eighteenth century -- Deconstructing the map -- New England cartography and the Native Americans -- Can there be a cartographic ethics?".
- catalog extent "xv, 331 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "New nature of maps.".
- catalog identifier "0801865662 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801870909 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "New nature of maps.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "New nature of maps.".
- catalog subject "526/.09 21".
- catalog subject "Cartography History.".
- catalog subject "GA201 .H37 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Texts and contexts in the interpretation of early maps -- Maps, knowledge, and power -- Silences and secrecy: the hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe -- Power and legitimation in the English geographical atlases of the eighteenth century -- Deconstructing the map -- New England cartography and the Native Americans -- Can there be a cartographic ethics?".
- catalog title "Essays in the history of cartography".
- catalog title "The new nature of maps : essays in the history of cartography / J.B. Harley ; edited by Paul Laxton ; introduction by J.H. Andrews.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".