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Maps that made history : 1000 years of world history in 100 old maps / Martijn Storms ; edited by Michiel van Groesen, Kasper van Ommen, Anne-Isabelle Richard, Alicia Schrikker, Martijn Storms and Garrelt Verhoeven.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Storms, Martijn, 1978- author, editor.
Contributor:
Museum Volkenkunde (Leiden, Netherlands), host institution.
Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, owner.
Groesen, Michiel van, editor.
Ommen, Kasper van, editor.
Richard, Anne-Isabelle, 1980- editor.
Schrikker, Alicia, editor.
Verhoeven, Garrelt, editor.
Language:
Dutch
English
Subjects (All):
Cartography--History--Exhibitions.
Cartography.
Maps--Private collections--Netherlands--Leiden--Exhibitions.
Maps.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
431 pages : illustrations, maps (chiefly colour) ; 34 cm
Place of Publication:
Tielt : Lannoo ; [Leiden] : Universiteit Leiden, [2022]
Language Note:
Translated from Dutch.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 800 Monastic cartography
1193 The world as a bird
1490 Around Africa to Asia
1533 A map for a lostalgic bishop in exile
1574 From a map to a monument
1578 A fortification plan for La Goletta
1593 A combination of scholarship and piety
1598 From peace-loving virgin to iron lady
1600 The Atlantic Ocean on an animal's back
1602 The fluctuating borders of the Low Countries
1621 The world in segments
1621 A voyage around Tierra del Fuego
1625 The siege of Bahia... or was it Sluis?
1631 The Atlantic world as prey
1632 Enrolling for the Brazilian coast
1633 On forgotten voyages
1640 The struggle against the Water Wolf
1645 Theatre of another world
1658 Enforced stopover on Saint Helena
1662 The world atlas race
1663 Dead straight through the dunes
1663 Feeding the thirst for knowledge
1666 From tragedy to anti-English propaganda
1684 A flat globe of the celestial vault
1695 Physical nature of the Earth revealed
1696 The myth of a clean war
1698 Africa on the wall
1708 Streams through time
1712 The island of California
1715 The mysterious Dampierre map
1721 A peaceful image of a harsh city
1725 An aroma worth a fortune
1730 Farewell to the miserable Southland
1734 A confluence of knowledge
1735 Treasure map leads to salvage operation
1741 Language maps of the Lord's Prayer
1751 Animals in a human world
1752 Philadelphia merges with its surroundings
1756 A disastrous project in Bimilipatnam
1757 An East India Company map of a divided island
1758 The seductive fiction of orderliness and victory
1765 The circles of Kandy
1771 Hydraulic engineering in Spain
1775 Visualising a New Dominion
1784 A route map for the emperor
1784 Plantations along the Demerara
1785 Straight roads for Irkutsk
1785 In search of Atlantis
1786 A bloodbath on Kodiak Island
1789 The dynamics of the delta
1799 Elmina, a city-state in West Africa
1799 The narrowest part of Holland
1807 The Leiden gunpowder disaster
1815 Imaginary travel from Edo to Nagasaki
1815 The glorious Battle of Waterloo
1825 Inside the walls of Edo Castle
1825 The topography of Ancient Rom
1832 The journey of cholera morbus
1837 Manuscript, copperplates and printing
1847 Polders in the Wadden Sea
1848 Battles on the Parisian barricades
1854 The theatre of war in Crimea
1861 War reporting avant la lettre
1861 Christianising the world
1866 The Europe of peace
1867 Cannons by the coast
1870 The earliest map of the eastern Himalayas
1879 In search of gold
1883 A passport to heaven
1886 An extraordinary explosion on Krakatoa
1890 The royal tombs of Kotagede
1897 "Of service to the Cyclist"
1908 I Expansion plan for The Hague
1913 The Santa Barbara phosphate mine, a bonanza
1917 Mapping hell on earth
1918 The tentacles of the British Empire
1919 New borders after the First World War
1920 A colonial El Dorado with a dark side
1928 A multi-layered Ottoman-Turkish map
1931 `Mapping' Armenia
1935 Propaganda during the interwar years
1936 A zeppelin above Sugarloaf Mountain
1940 Topography of terror
1943 Flying horsepower
1950 Squabbling about Congolese languages
1952 A new view of the Sahara
1952 Canada's global role
1954 The Native Courts of Nigeria
1954 Advertising Jamaica
1956 Quest for a national vision
1960 A pilgrim's map from India
1967 Gas from the borderlands
1970 Oppressed and resisting
1975 Administrative districts of China
1976 Constructing the Kim Il Sung myth
1977 The strategic importance of the Panama Canal
1984 A glimpse of the Soviet vision of Utopia
1985 In the footsteps of Charles Darwin
2007 In the style of De Stijl.
Notes:
Exhibition: National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, Netherlands, 21.10.2022-29.10.2023.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
9789401485302
9401485305
OCLC:
1313904896
Publisher Number:
99993181474

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