Maps and History
Subtitle: Constructing Images of the Past
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780300086935
Subjects: Historical geography; History; History of science; Maps, charts & atlases; Cartography; Historiography; History - General History; History: World; World - General; History / Historiography
First sentence: In recent decades the understanding of maps and mapping, of cartography and the history of cartography, has altered and widened to include traditions of representation that do not accord with the customary Western definitions.