[PDF.65xg] The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography

The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography

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 | #1176885 in Books |  J B Harley |  2002-09-05 |  2002-09-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.75 x6.00l,1.09 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

 | The New Nature of Maps Essays in the History of Cartography

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| An inspiration for critical cartography|By sailorman|Brian Harley can be considered a figurehead in the debate on more human and humane approaches to cartography. This was something very unusual or even daring in the 1980s. The book gathers a selection of some of his most important writings on the history of cartography, the reading between the lines of maps, and the ethics of| ||"The father of critical cartography, and therefore the idea that a map should be understood as more than just a set of directions, was J. B. Harley... The New Nature of Maps... display[s] great erudition." (Nicholas Lemann New Yorker)

In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional, "positivist" model of cartography, replacing it with one that is grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps. He defines a map as a "social construction" and argues that maps are not simple representations of reality but exert profound influences upon the way space is conceptu...

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