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

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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Cartography -- History -- Congresses.

Time in cartography -- Congresses.

9780226718590 hardcover

022671859X hardcover

xiv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Foreword / Abby Smith Rumsey -- Introduction : Maps tell time / Caroline Winterer and Kären Wigen -- Mapping time in the twentieth (and twenty-first) century / William Rankin -- Part I: Pacific Asia. Orienting the past in early modern Japan / Kären Wigen -- Jesuit maps in China and Korea : connecting the past to the present / Richard A. Pegg -- Part II: The Atlantic World. History in maps from the Aztec empire / Barbara E. Mundy -- Lifting the veil of time : maps, metaphor, and antiquarianism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Veronica Della Dora -- A map of language / Daniel Rosenberg -- Part III: The United States. The first American maps of deep time / Caroline Winterer -- How place became process : the origins of time mapping in the United States / Susan Schulten -- Time, travel, and mapping the landscapes of war / James R. Akerman.

"The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools that can readily show change over time in space. But long before such software became available, mapmakers regularly represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in supposedly static maps, and even those maps presented as historical snapshot illustrate the centrality of time to what we think of as primarily a spatial medium. In this collection, an array of today's leading scholars consider how mapmakers in a variety of contexts depicted time in their creations--from 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 includes a theoretical salvo and defense of traditional paper maps by William Rankin--himself a distinguished digital mapmaker--and includes more than 100 maps and related visuals, all in full color"--

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