Download or read book La storia del mondo in dodici mappe written by Jerry Brotton and published by Feltrinelli Editore. This book was released on 2017-11-23T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dai Babilonesi a Google Earth Jerry Brotton racconta la nostra storia attraverso le carte geografiche... Dobbiamo a Brotton la possibilità di impararne le tecniche segrete, le ragioni ultime e le infinite particolarità curiose: il fatto che ce la porga senza essere pedante o vacuamente romanzesco rende il suo libro un esempio significativo di come il sapere possa essere semplice tranquillità, pacata sicurezza e composta passione.” Alessandro Baricco, “la Repubblica”
Download or read book A History of the World in 12 Maps written by Jerry Brotton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the warrior to plan his campaigns and the propagandist to boost his cause… rich and beautiful.” – Wall Street Journal Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by considering it in all its nuances and omissions, we can better understand the world that produced it. Although the way we map our surroundings is more precise than ever before, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been. Readers of this beautifully illustrated and masterfully argued book will never look at a map in quite the same way again. “A fascinating and panoramic new history of the cartographer’s art.” – The Guardian “The intellectual background to these images is conveyed with beguiling erudition…. There is nothing more subversive than a map.” – The Spectator “A mesmerizing and beautifully illustrated book.” —The Telegraph
Download or read book A History of the World in Twelve Maps written by Jerry Brotton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series 'Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession'. Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world - whether the Jerusalem-centred Christian perspective of the 14th century Hereford Mappa Mundi or the Peters projection of the 1970s which aimed to give due weight to 'the third world'. Although the way we map our surroundings is once more changing dramatically, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been - but that they continue to make arguments and propositions about the world, and to recreate, shape and mediate our view of it. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination written by Daniele Villa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 1251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination (IMG), held in Milano, Italy, in November 2021. Highlighting interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research concerning graphics science and education, the papers address theoretical research as well as applications, including education, in several fields of science, technology and art. Mainly focusing on graphics for communication, visualization, description and storytelling, and for learning and thought construction, the book provides architects, engineers, computer scientists, and designers with the latest advances in the field, particularly in the context of science, arts and education.
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Download or read book New Metropolitan Perspectives written by Francesco Calabrò and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 2873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to face the challenge of post-COVID-19 dynamics toward green and digital transition, between metropolitan and return to villages’ perspectives. It presents a multi-disciplinary scientific debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools, within the urban–rural areas networks and the metropolitan cities. The book focuses on six topics: inner and marginalized areas local development to re-balance territorial inequalities; knowledge and innovation ecosystem for urban regeneration and resilience; metropolitan cities and territorial dynamics; rules, governance, economy, society; green buildings, post-carbon city and ecosystem services; infrastructures and spatial information systems; cultural heritage: conservation, enhancement and management. In addition, the book hosts a Special Section: Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. The book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in the issues applied to metropolitan cities and marginal areas.
Download or read book Uma hist ria do mundo em doze mapas written by Jerry Brotton and published by Editora Schwarcz - Companhia das Letras. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Um olhar fascinante sobre doze mapas - da Grécia Antiga ao Google Earth - e como eles marcaram o nosso mundo Objetos de encanto e deslumbramento, os mapas têm sido usados através dos séculos para promover interesses políticos, religiosos e econômicos. Da tabuleta de argila à tela de computador, passando por Ptolomeu, o "pai da geografia", pelos mundos árabe e oriental e pelo Renascimento, o historiador e especialista em cartografia Jerry Brotton explora doze dos mapas mais importantes da história, num panorama repleto de controvérsias e manipulações. Repleto de belíssimas ilustrações, o autor analisa os mapas abaixo recriando o contexto de cada um deles, conta as histórias de quem os criou e por quê, e revela a sua influência sobre a forma como vemos o mundo: - A Geografia de Ptolomeu, c.150 d.C. - Al-Idrisi, 1154 d.C. - O mapa-múndi de Hereford, c.1300 - O mapa mundial Kangnido, 1402 - Martin Waldseemüller, mapa do mundo, 1507 - Diogo Ribeiro, mapa do mundo, 1529 - Gerard Mercator, mapa do mundo, 1569 - Joan Blaeu, Atlas maior, 1662 - Família Cassini, mapa da França, 1793 - Halford Mackinder, "O eixo geográfico da história", 1904 - A projeção de Peters, 1973 - Google Earth, 2012 "É maravilhosa a ideia de Brotton de traçar com os mapas os padrões do pensamento humano e da civilização." The Guardian "Brotton é extremamente sensível aos contextos sociais, políticos e religiosos que desvendam por que os mapas foram feitos, por quem e com que objetivos." History Today "A base intelectual por trás das imagens é transmitida com uma erudição encantadora. Não há nada mais subversivo que um mapa." Spectator "Como demonstra esse livro deslumbrante e lindamente ilustrado, desde os tempos mais remotos os mapas carregam um grande peso simbólico... Uma história rica e infinitamente cativante." Daily Telegraph "Leitura absorvente.
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Download or read book The Making of Medieval Sardinia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume combines classic and revisionist essays to explore the historiography of Sardinia’s exceptional transition from an island of the Byzantine empire to the rise of its own autonomous rulers, the iudikes, by the 1000s. In addition to Sardinia’s contacts with the Byzantines, Muslim North Africa and Spain, Lombard Italy, Genoa, Pisa, and the papacy, recent and older evidence is analysed through Latin, Greek and Arabic sources, vernacular charters and cartularies, the testimony of coinage, seals, onomastics and epigraphy as well as the Sardinia’s early medieval churches, arts, architecture and archaeology. The result is an important new critique of state formation at the margins of Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West with the creation of lasting cultural, political and linguistic frontiers in the western Mediterranean. Contributors are Hervin Fernández-Aceves, Luciano Gallinari, Rossana Martorelli, Attilio Mastino, Alex Metcalfe, Marco Muresu, Michele Orrù, Andrea Pala, Giulio Paulis, Giovanni Strinna, Alberto Virdis, Maurizio Virdis, and Corrado Zedda.
Download or read book Building Knowledge Constructing Histories Volume 1 written by Ine Wouters and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories brings together the papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH, Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018). The contributions present the latest research in the field of construction history, covering themes such as: - Building actors - Building materials - The process of building - Structural theory and analysis - Building services and techniques - Socio-cultural aspects - Knowledge transfer - The discipline of Construction History The papers cover various types of buildings and structures, from ancient times to the 21st century, from all over the world. In addition, thematic papers address specific themes and highlight new directions in construction history research, fostering transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories is a must-have for academics, scientists, building conservators, architects, historians, engineers, designers, contractors and other professionals involved or interested in the field of construction history. This is volume 1 of the book set.
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Download or read book Building Knowledge Constructing Histories written by Ine Wouters and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories brings together the papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH, Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 July 2018). The contributions present the latest research in the field of construction history, covering themes such as: - Building actors - Building materials - The process of building - Structural theory and analysis - Building services and techniques - Socio-cultural aspects - Knowledge transfer - The discipline of Construction History The papers cover various types of buildings and structures, from ancient times to the 21st century, from all over the world. In addition, thematic papers address specific themes and highlight new directions in construction history research, fostering transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories is a must-have for academics, scientists, building conservators, architects, historians, engineers, designers, contractors and other professionals involved or interested in the field of construction history.
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