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Jeremy Black

Maps and History

Constructing Images of the Past

Jeremy Black

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English
Yale University
10 September 2000
History; Historical geography; History of science; Geography; Geographical maps (specialist)
"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. He then examines the first known historical atlas, the Parergon of Abraham Ortel, which was published in Antwerp in 1579 and was followed by other works that mapped the world of the Bible and the classics. In the eighteenth century, there was a growing interest in mapping the post-Classical world, and works appeared that included maps of medieval Europe. In the nineteenth century, historical maps came increasingly to embody a clear political emphasis, mapping blocs of territory separated by clear linear frontiers and reflecting an approach to the past focused on undivided sovereignty and the development of the nation-state.

In the twentieth century, historical atlases have both contributed to and responded to other ideologies, portraying peoples, languages, and cultural differences in an immediate and often striking visual form. Since 1945 the range of atlases has broadened to include maps devoted to the global environment, health, population trends, and other sociological, cultural, and economic changes. And the ""liberation"" of the Third World and the ending of the Cold War have stimulated a full scale re-mapping of the globe and the way it is perceived."
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Imprint:   Yale University
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 178mm,  Spine: 2mm
Weight:   794g
ISBN:   9780300086935
ISBN 10:   0300086938
Pages:   274
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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