Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge

6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2016
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-87098-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

Reihe: Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA)

Presents previously unavailable information on the dissemination of cartographic knowledge from the 18th to the 20th century, including previously unpublished maps Reports on the results of new research projects pursued by internationally respected experts on the history of cartography at tertiary institutions around the globe Offers a multidisciplinary approach

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altic, Mirela

Demhardt, Imre Josef

Vervust, Soetkin

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Modellierung & Simulation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie GIS, Geoinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computersimulation & Modelle, 3-D Graphik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Mapping Urban Spaces.- A View of Dubrovnik as a Spectacle: Presentations of the Dubrovnik Earthquake of 1667 in European Commercial Cartography.- Mapping the metropolis: analysing map production in Lyon and São Paulo on the first half of the 20th century.- Part II Territory, Sovereignty and Borderlands.- Between Secrecy and Silent Cooperation – The Dissemination of Knowledge about the Republic of Dubrovnik in the Context of the Ottoman–Venetian and Napoleonic Wars.- Cartographic exchange and territorial creation: rewriting northern Japan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.- Part III Map Production and Dissemination of Knowledge.- ‘Back to the Drawing Board’: map-making and the Royal Geographical Society 1831-1990.- Historiographic Mapping of 7th c. BC Egypt: the obliteration of historical complexity.- Part IV Libraries, Accessibility and Specific Cartographic Resources.- Improving User Access to Soviet Military Mapping: A Guide for Map Libraries around the Globe.- User-Centred Design of a Collaborative, Object Oriented Historical GIS-Platform.

Über Autor(innen)

Mirela Altic is a chief research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia. At the University of Zagreb’s Department of History, Dr. Altic serves as a full professor and lectures on the history of cartography and historical geography. Besides her specialization in South Eastern and Central European map history, over the last few years she has also published extensively on the Jesuit cartography of the Americas and conducted research in European and American archives and libraries. She is the author of twelve books, numerous scholarly papers and a contributor to The History of Cartography encyclopedia project. Since 2015 she has also served as Vice-Chair of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography.

Imre Josef Demhardt’s research interests include post-enlightenment cartography, colonialism and regional studies with a focus on Central Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and North America. Besides numerous articles and several books on these subjects, he is involved as co-editor of Vol. 5 (Nineteenth Century) in the encyclopedia project on the History of Cartography . He holds the Garrett Chair in the History of Cartography at the University of Texas at Arlington and currently serves as Chair of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography.

Soetkin Vervust is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and Newcastle University (UK). Her research interests lie in 18 and 19 century military cartography, the use of digital techniques for the study of historical maps, and their applicability to historical geography and landscape archaeology. Since 2015 she has served as Executive Secretary of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography.