Time in maps : from the Age of Discovery to our digital era / edited by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wigen, Kären, 1958- editor.

Winterer, Caroline, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--History--Congresses.

Cartography.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) : 25 color plates, 80 maps

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Maps Tell Time

1 Mapping Time in the Twentieth (and Twenty-First) Century

Part I Pacific Asia

2 Orienting the Past in Early Modern Japan

3 Jesuit Maps in China and Korea: Connecting the Past to the Present

Part II The Atlantic World

4 History in Maps from the Aztec Empire

5 Lifting the Veil of Time: Maps, Metaphor, and Antiquarianism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

6 A Map of Language

Part III The United States

7 The First American Maps of Deep Time

8 How Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States

9 Time, Travel, and Mapping the Landscapes of War

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-71862-X

OCLC:

1202454397