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The rise and fall of the national atlas in the twentieth century : power, state and territory / John Rennie Short.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Short, John R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atlases--History--20th century.
- Atlases.
- Cartography--Political aspects.
- Cartography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 167 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Between 1900 and 2000, more than seventy countries produced a national atlas, an official or quasi-official rendering of the nation-state in maps and accompanying text. This book considers the reasons behind and characteristics of this state-sponsored cartographic explosion. These national atlases mirror and embody some of the important themes of this turbulent century, including the complex connections between nation, state and territory, the rise of state-sponsored science; the growth of nation-states; colonialism and postcolonialism; and the geography of biopolitics.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- A Century of Nationalism
- The Main Arguments
- Structure of the Book
- 2 The Early National Atlas
- A Cartographic Explosion
- The Early National Atlas in England and France
- 3 Cartographic Anxieties and the Emergence of the Modern National Atlas
- The Modern National Atlas in Latin America
- From Anxieties to Certainties
- Remaining Anxieties
- 4 Cartographic Ruptures and the National Atlas
- Cartographic Declarations of Independence
- Revolutionary Ruptures
- A Transect across the Ruptures
- 5 National Atlas, Global Discourses
- The Global Framing of the National
- The Language of the Atlas: Text
- The Language of the Atlas: Maps
- 6 The Physical World of the National Atlas
- Origins
- Science, State and the National Atlas
- National Imaginaries
- Contested Discourses of the National Atlas
- 7 The Social World of the National Atlas
- Social Statistics
- Statistical Atlases
- Social Categories
- 8 The End of the National Atlas?
- Information Overload
- New Technologies
- National Atlas as Digital Portal
- Toward a Polyphonic Participatory Atlas
- Notes
- Appendix: National Atlas Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781839983047
- 1839983043
- 9781839983054
- 1839983051
- OCLC:
- 1328134999
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