Cartophilia : Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland / Catherine Tatiana Dunlop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunlop, Catherine Tatiana, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Political aspects--France.

Cartography.

Cartography--Political aspects--Germany.

Alsace (France)--Maps--History--19th century.

Alsace (France).

Lorraine (France)--Maps--History--19th century.

Lorraine (France).

Alsace (France)--Maps--History--20th century.

Lorraine (France)--Maps--History--20th century.

France--Boundaries--Germany--History.

France.

Germany--Boundaries--France--History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed borderland that the French and Germans both claimed as their national territory. Desired for its prime geographical position and abundant natural resources, Alsace-Lorraine endured devastating wars from 1870 to 1945 that altered its borders four times, transforming its physical landscape and the political allegiances of its citizens. For the border population whose lives were turned upside down by the French-German conflict, maps became essential tools for finding a new sense of place and a new sense of identity in their changing national and regional communities. Turning to a previously undiscovered archive of popular maps, Cartophilia reveals Alsace-Lorraine's lively world of citizen mapmakers that included linguists, ethnographers, schoolteachers, hikers, and priests. Together, this fresh group of mapmakers invented new genres of maps that framed French and German territory in original ways through experimental surveying techniques, orientations, scales, colors, and iconography. In focusing on the power of "bottom-up" maps to transform modern European identities, Cartophilia argues that the history of cartography must expand beyond the study of elite maps and shift its emphasis to the democratization of cartography in the modern world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

CHAPTER 1. States Map Their Borders

CHAPTER 2. What Makes a Good Border?

CHAPTER 3. Language Maps

CHAPTER 4. Finding the Center

CHAPTER 5. Maps for Movement

CHAPTER 6. Visualizing Strasbourg

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

OCLC:

907532927