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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Storms, Martijn, 1978- author, 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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