Mapping mountains / Ernesto Capello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Capello, Ernesto, author.

Series:

Map history (Brill Academic Publishers)

Map History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountain mapping.

Cartography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an initial overview and critique of the traditional historiography and development of techniques of relief representation, the essay features four clusters of mountain mapping emphases. These include visions of mountains as paradise, the mountain as site of colonial and postcolonial encounter, the development of elevation profiles and panoramas, and mountains as mass-marketed touristed itineraries.

Contents:

Mapping Mountains

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

1 The Traditional Historiography and its Challengers

1.1 Just What is a Mountain Anyway?

1.2 Traditional Historiography

1.3 Challenging Traditional Historiography

1.4 A Rather Brief Overview of Contemporary Cartographic Relief Presentation

2 Paradise and Pilgrimage

3 Colonial and Postcolonial Peaks

4 Profiles and Panoramas

5 Touristed Itineraries

Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Capello, Ernesto. Mapping mountains.

ISBN:

90-04-44168-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004441682 DOI