Cartographies of travel and navigation / edited by James R. Akerman.
Cartographies of travel and navigation / edited by James R. Akerman.
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Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
Call Numbers
N629.045/11
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 372 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction / James R. Akerman -- Milieus of mobility : itineraries, route maps and road maps / Catherine Delano-Smith -- Surveying the seas : establishing the sea routes to the East Indies / Andrew S. Cook -- Mapping a transcontinental nation : nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American rail...
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Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2006.
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Summary
"Examining the historical relationship between travelers, navigation, and maps, Cartographies of Travel and Navigation considers the cartographic response to the new modalities of modern travel brought about by technological and institutional developments in the twentieth century. Highlighting the ways in which the travelers, operators, and planner...
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Cartographies of travel and navigation / edited by James R. Akerman.
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The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N629.045/11
Record Identifier
74VKKaODNq5O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKaODNq5O
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ISBN
9780226010748
0226010740 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
629.045
MMS ID
991021866199702626
