After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
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Название: After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
Автор: William Rankin
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Для сайта: vtome.ru
Страниц: 419
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Язык: English
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a “map-minded age,” where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century’s end, however, there had been decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems.