Monthly Archives: September 2007
Historical Mapping: Extraneous or Essential?
Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History, edited by Anny Kelly Knowles is packed with provocative essays that offer a series of case studies about how m GIS, mapping, and plotting can be used to represent and convey historical information. … Continue reading
Birth of a Nation and Other Famous Maps
Jeremy Black’s Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past covers a lot of ground in its two hundred pages. Black assesses a great deal of the history of mapmaking, historical or otherwise, stretching back to China in 2100 BC. … Continue reading
Seeing things differently?
In examining the different atlases and maps this past week, a thought kept reoccurring that I haven’t quite been able to work through. There seems to be a significant difference between these historical atlases and text-based historical analysis, mainly in … Continue reading
Analyzing Atlases
Maps can provide interesting access points to the past. The information, presentation, and context of historical maps can indicate more that geographic locations. Instead they carry cultural attitudes and values, changing demographics, and contemporary political inclinations. In gathering historical maps … Continue reading
Almost Forgot
Reading Lee Anne Ghajar’s post about the interpretational aspects of cartography reminded me of something I came across a few months back. You ask, “But is a satellite view of the earth subject to the same interpretive categories as the … Continue reading
Consilience
New words catch my eye in nearly everything I read, but often I’ve forgotten them shortly after examining their definitions, since generally speaking there is either little opportunity to use them or they are words with no real distinction from … Continue reading
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