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Book Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries

Download or read book Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries written by Raleigh Ashlin Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries

Download or read book Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries written by R. A. Skelton and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries

Download or read book Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Revolution  1775 1783  an Atlas of 18th Century Maps and Charts  Theatres of Operations

Download or read book The American Revolution 1775 1783 an Atlas of 18th Century Maps and Charts Theatres of Operations written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries

Download or read book Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries written by Raleigh Ashlin Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ships on Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard W. Unger
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2010-08-04
  • ISBN : 0230282164
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Ships on Maps written by Richard W. Unger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.

Book English Navigational Books  Charts and Globes Printed Down to 1600

Download or read book English Navigational Books Charts and Globes Printed Down to 1600 written by David W. Waters and published by UC Biblioteca Geral 1. This book was released on 1985 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historian s Guide to Early British Maps

Download or read book Historian s Guide to Early British Maps written by Helen Wallis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain and Ireland enjoy a rich cartographic heritage, yet historians have not made full use of early maps in their writings and research. This is partly due to a lack of information about exactly which maps are available. With the publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society, we now have a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain. The book is divided into two parts: part one describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the early mapping of the British Isles; part two comprises a guide to the collections, national and regional. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this volume provides an essential reference tool for anyone requiring to access maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.

Book William Faden and Norfolk s Eighteenth Century Landscape

Download or read book William Faden and Norfolk s Eighteenth Century Landscape written by Andrew Macnair and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the eighteenth-century "cartographic revolution". It explores what the map, and others like it, can tell us about contemporary social and economic geography. But it also shows how, carefully examined, the map can also inform us about the development of the Norfolk landscape in much more remote periods of time. The book includes a digital version of the map, on DVD. Andrew Macnair is Research Fellow at the School of History in the University of East Anglia; Tom Williamson is Professor of History and Head of the Landscape Group at the University of East Anglia.

Book The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England

Download or read book The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England written by D.K. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of geographical understanding, but of cartographic manipulation, which he terms, "the cartographic imagination." Rather than considering the effects of maps themselves on early modern epistemologies, Smith considers the effects of the activity of mapping-the new techniques, the new expectations of accuracy and precision which developed in the sixteenth century-on the ways people thought and wrote. Looking at works by Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, and Marvell among other authors, he analyzes how the growing ability to represent physical space accurately brought with it not just a wealth of new maps, but a new array of rhetorical techniques, metaphors, and associations which allowed the manipulation of texts and ideas in ways never before possible.

Book The Iconography of Landscape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Denis Cosgrove
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780521389150
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Iconography of Landscape written by Denis Cosgrove and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1988, draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image.

Book Queen Elizabeth s Wardrobe Unlock d

Download or read book Queen Elizabeth s Wardrobe Unlock d written by Janet Arnold and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides photographs of portraits, miniatures, tomb sculptures, engravings, woven textiles and embroideries of clothes found in the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth. It is an invaluable reference for students of the history of dress and embroidery, for social historians and art historians.

Book The World Made New

Download or read book The World Made New written by Marc Aronson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Made New provides an account of the charting of the New World and the long-term effects of America's march into history. The text uses primary sources to bring history to life and features profiles of the major explorers of the age. The book is illustrated with full-color artwork, multiple-time lines, and six custom National Geographic maps. The text and layout combine to provide an overview of New World exploration, and outline the historical context for the discoveries that literally changed the world. The narrative carries young readers through this age of adventure. Follow the timeline of history unfolding; how the early colonies were established; how dissemination of products like the potato, tomato, tobacco, and corn made the Americas a major part of the new world economy; and how the Caribbean became a major trading hub.

Book The New Nature of Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. B. Harley
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2002-10-03
  • ISBN : 9780801870903
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The New Nature of Maps written by J. B. Harley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.

Book Rethinking the Power of Maps

Download or read book Rethinking the Power of Maps written by Denis Wood and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of mapmaking and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art.

Book BiblioCraft

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jessica Pigza
  • Publisher : ABRAMS
  • Release : 2014-03-18
  • ISBN : 1613127251
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book BiblioCraft written by Jessica Pigza and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover a treasure-trove of crafting tips and inspiration with help from a rare book librarian and examples from Natalie Chanin, Liesl Gibson, and more. A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Deep in the stacks of any library is a wealth of inspiration waiting to be uncovered, and a plethora of projects ready to be tackled. In BiblioCraft, crafting aficionado and rare book librarian Jessica Pigza shares her secrets to scouring those musty collections—both in person and online—for everything from vintage needlepoint magazines to historic watermarks and Japanese family crests. As a host of the New York Public Library’s Handmade Crafternoon series, Pigza has helped creative people of all types take advantage of these hidden riches. BiblioCraft also presents more than twenty projects inspired by library resources from a stellar cast of designers, including Alabama Chanin founder Natalie Chanin, Liesl + Co. founder Liesl Gibson, Charm Patterns founder Gretchen Hirsch, illustrator and fabric designer Heather Ross, Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney, and others. Whether your passion is pillows or coasters, fascinators or fabrics, Pigza will show you how to turn your local library into a global crafting goldmine.

Book Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: