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New Nature of Maps:

Essays in the History of Cartography
  • ISBN-13: 9780801870903
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By J. B. Harley, Edited by Paul Laxton, Introduction by J. H. Andrews
  • Price: AUD $69.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2002
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 352 pages Weight: 500g
  • Categories: Geography [RG]
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In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional, ''positivist'' model of cartography, replacing it with one that is grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps. He defines a map as a ''social construction'' and argues that maps are not simple representations of reality but exert profound influences upon the way space is conceptualized and organized. A central theme is the way in which power--whether military, political, religious, or economic--becomes inscribed on the land through cartography. In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.


Contents:

Introduction: Meaning, Knowledge, and Power in the Map Philosophy of J.B. Harley, by J. H. Andrews

1 Text and Contexts in the Interpretation of Early Maps

2 Maps, Knowledge, and Power

3 Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe

4 Power and Legitimation in the English Geographical Atlases of the Eighteenth Century

5 Deconstructing the Map

New England Cartography and the Native Americans

7 Can There Be a Cartographic Ethics

""The 'new nature' of maps reflects the sea change in the discipline of the history of cartography that has occurred, to a remarkable degree instigated by Brian Harley.""

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