Title: Mappings /
Authors: Cosgrove, Denis E.
Publisher: Reaktion,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Human geography Philosophy; Cartography History; Culture
Contents: Mapping in the mind: the Earth from ancient Alexandria / Christian Jacob -- Mapping Eden: cartographies of the earthly paradise / Alessandro Scafi -- Terrestrial globalism: mapping the globe in early modern Europe / Jerry Brotton -- Mapping places: chorography and vision in the renaissance / Lucia Nuti -- Mapping, the body and desire: Christopher Packe's chorography of Kent / Michael Charlesworth -- Dark with excess of bright: mapping the coastlines of knowledge / Paul Carter -- Mapping tropical waters: British views and visions of Rio de Janeiro / Luciana de Lima Martins -- Mapping modernity: utopia and communications networks / Armand Mattelart -- The uses of cartographic literacy: mapping, survey and citizenship in twentieth-century Britain / David Matless -- The agency of mapping: speculation, critique and invention / James Corner -- Mapping and the expanded field of contemporary art / Wystan Curnow.