Название: Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past
Автор: Jeremy Black
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300086938
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 296
Размер: 108,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past that is invaluable to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal what historians and educators of those periods thought important to include or omit. This book?the first comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the historical atlas?explores the role, development, and nature of this important reference and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.
Jeremy Black begins with a consideration of the "pre-history" of the historical atlas: individual maps depicting the Holy Land at the time of Christ and maps of the classical world.