The New Nature Of Maps: Essays In The History Of Cartography, Paperback - J. B. Harley

Andrews is a retired professor of geography at Trinity College, Dublin and author of A Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Shapes of Ireland. Paul Laxton lectured in the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool for more than thirty years. A central theme is the way in which power--whether military, political, religious, or economic--becomes inscribed on the land through cartography. 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. His ideas on the meaning of maps have influenced not just geographers and map historians but also students of art history and literature. 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. B. He is now an independent scholar. H. J. B. In this collection of essays J. In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.About the Author:J. Harley lectured in historical geography at the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. At Milwaukee he began, with David Woodward, the multivolume History of Cartography, the first volume of which was published in 1987.

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The New Nature Of Maps: Essays In The History Of Cartography, Paperback - J. B. Harley