Cartographies of travel and navigation / edited by James R. Akerman.
Contributors: Akerman, James R.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Maps.; Navigation.; Map reading.; Maps -- United States.; Navigation -- United States.; Map reading -- United States.
Description: "Examining the historical relationship between travelers, navigation, and maps, Cartographies of Travel and Navigation considers the cartographic response to the new modalities of modern travel brought about by technological and institutional developments in the twentieth century. Highlighting the ways in which the travelers, operators, and planners of modern transportation systems value maps as both navigation tools and as representations of a radical new mobility, this collection brings the cartography of travel - by road, sea, rail, and air - to the forefront, placing maps at the center of the history of travel and movement."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Milieus of mobility : itineraries, route maps, and road maps / Catherine Delano-Smith; title: Surveying the seas : establishing the sea routes to the East Indies / Andrew S. Cook; title: Mapping a transcontinental nation : nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American rail travel cartography / Jerry Musich; title: Twentieth-century American road maps and the making of a national motorized space / James R. Akerman; title: Up in the air in more ways than one : the emergence of aeronautical charts in the United States / Ralph E. Ehrenberg; title: Maps on wheels : the evolution of intelligent automobile navigation / Robert L. French.