Time in Maps

From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

Time in Maps
Karen Wigen, Caroline Winterer
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Hardback
h254 x 210mm - 272pg
23 Nov 2020 US
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9780226718590
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Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today' s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Karen Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.
"What a relief to move beyond the worn dichotomy between maps and timelines, geography and history! Time in Maps shows definitively that maps brim with temporal references, both overt and subtle. They represent moments that range from one protest march to centuries of slavery, or a year' s erosion along Cape Cod to the deep time of geological eons. Cartographers' visual strategies include encodings of time as much as symbolic representations of objects in space. Contrary to popular opinion, printed maps are anything but ' static' once one learns to recognize how they in fact hold time in the embrace of space. Time in Maps is a wonderful book, and one that is long overdue. "-- "Anne Kelly Knowles, University of Maine"
Karen Wigen is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University. Caroline Winterer is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780226718590
Published: 23 Nov 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 254mm
Width: 210mm
Pages: 272

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