Author: Mary Sponberg PedleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226653412
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
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The Commerce of Cartography
Author: Mary Sponberg PedleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226653412
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Commerce of Cartography
Author: Mary Sponberg PedleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681758X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Though the political and intellectual history of mapmaking in the eighteenth century is well established, the details of its commercial revolution have until now been widely scattered. In The Commerce of Cartography, Mary Pedley presents a vivid picture of the costs and profits of the mapmaking industry in England and France, and reveals how the economics of map trade affected the content and appearance of the maps themselves. Conceptualizing the relationship between economics and cartography, Pedley traces the process of mapmaking from compilation, production, and marketing to consumption, reception, and criticism. In detailing the rise of commercial cartography, Pedley explores qualitative issues of mapmaking as well. Why, for instance, did eighteenth-century ideals of aesthetics override the modern values of accuracy and detail? And what, to an eighteenth-century mind and eye, qualified as a good map? A thorough and engaging study of the business of cartography during the Enlightenment, The Commerce of Cartography charts a new cartographic landscape and will prove invaluable to scholars of economic history, historical geography, and the history of publishing.
Encounters in the New World
Author: Mirela AlticPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679119X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Analyzing more than 150 historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits’ significant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World. In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits. The Society’s goal was to revitalize the faith of Catholics and to evangelize to non-Catholics through charity, education, and missionary work. By the end of the century, Jesuit missionaries were sent all over the world, including to South America. In addition to performing missionary and humanitarian work, Jesuits also served as cartographers and explorers under the auspices of the Spanish, Portuguese, and French crowns as they ventured into remote areas to find and evangelize to native populations. In Encounters in the New World, Mirela Altic analyzes more than 150 of their maps, most of which have never previously been published. She traces the Jesuit contribution to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World into the post-suppression period, placing it in the context of their worldwide undertakings in the fields of science and art. Altic’s analysis also shows the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into the Jesuit maps, effectively making them an expression of cross-cultural communication—even as they were tools of colonial expansion. This ambiguity, she reveals, reflects the complex relationship between missions, knowledge, and empire. Far more than just a physical survey of unknown space, Jesuit mapping of the New World was in fact the most important link to enable an exchange of ideas and cultural concepts between the Old World and the New.
The Curious Map Book
Author: Ashley Baynton-WilliamsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623729X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Since that ancient day when the first human drew a line connecting Point A to Point B, maps have been understood as one of the most essential tools of communication. Despite differences in language, appearance, or culture, maps are universal touchstones in human civilization. Over the centuries, maps have served many varied purposes; far from mere guides for reaching a destination, they are unique artistic forms, aides in planning commercial routes, literary devices for illuminating a story. Accuracy—or inaccuracy—of maps has been the make-or-break factor in countless military battles throughout history. They have graced the walls of homes, bringing prestige and elegance to their owners. They track the mountains, oceans, and stars of our existence. Maps help us make sense of our worlds both real and imaginary—they bring order to the seeming chaos of our surroundings. With The Curious Map Book, Ashley Baynton-Williams gathers an amazing, chronologically ordered variety of cartographic gems, mainly from the vast collection of the British Library. He has unearthed a wide array of the whimsical and fantastic, from maps of board games to political ones, maps of the Holy Land to maps of the human soul. In his illuminating introduction, Baynton-Williams also identifies and expounds upon key themes of map production, peculiar styles, and the commerce and collection of unique maps. This incredible volume offers a wealth of gorgeous illustrations for anyone who is cartographically curious.
The History of Cartography, Volume 4
Author: Matthew H. EdneyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022633922X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1920
Book Description
Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.
The Cartography of Commerce
Author: Alistair Simon MaeerPublisher: ProQuest
ISBN: 9780542863394
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Analysis of the import/export statistics of seventeenth-century England reveals the emergence of a powerful economic engine. However, while statistics and other sources may imply, suggest, and sometimes even 'show' us the English economic awakening of the seventeenth century, few sources can demonstrate it as vividly as maps and artwork. Maps can easily throw much light onto social, economic, and political history. Few sources offer the perspective that visual aids do. A map, which is a graphic expression of perceived reality, offers important contemporary insight into the conceptions and conventions of the peoples of the past. So too do maps succinctly depict the desires and modalities of peoples. Historians can both broaden their base of sources and widen their conceptual horizons by incorporating visual components into their primary source materials. Accordingly, this dissertation uses cartographic sources to increase our understanding of seventeenth-century English overseas expansion. By correlating the development of overseas expansion to the advance of marine technologies in the seventeenth century, we can see that the growth in the shipping industry, cartography, and English overseas interests were all interrelated, that is, all were integral to the nation's economic expansion. Specifically, by examining English cartographic evidence, particularly works by the Thames School, alongside documentation of the growth in the English maritime economy, it is possible to express graphically the emergent interrelated interests of mapping and trade in England in the seventeenth century. By combining the graphic evidence with the textual material, I contextualize, visualize, and help to better explain the interrelatedness of advances in mapping, commerce, and empire in seventeenth-century England and effectively show England's rise to hegemony through the imagery of the day. Thus, by synthesizing three distinct types of history--maritime, economic and cartographic--we can more fully express and understand, as contemporaries did, the expansion of the English beyond the Atlantic Ocean.
Women and Cartography in the Progressive Era
Author: Christina E. DandoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134771142
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In the twenty-first century we speak of a geospatial revolution, but over one hundred years ago another mapping revolution was in motion. Women’s lives were in motion: they were playing a greater role in public on a variety of fronts. As women became more mobile (physically, socially, politically), they used and created geographic knowledge and maps. The maps created by American women were in motion too: created, shared, distributed as they worked to transform their landscapes. Long overlooked, this women’s work represents maps and mapping that today we would term community or participatory mapping, critical cartography and public geography. These historic examples of women-generated mapping represent the adoption of cartography and geography as part of women’s work. While cartography and map use are not new, the adoption and application of this technology and form of communication in women’s work and in multiple examples in the context of their social work, is unprecedented. This study explores the implications of women’s use of this technology in creating and presenting information and knowledge and wielding it to their own ends. This pioneering and original book will be essential reading for those working in Geography, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Politics and History.
When France Was King of Cartography
Author: Christine Marie PettoPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739162470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Geographical works, as socially constructed texts, provide a rich source for historians and historians of science investigating patronage, the governmental initiatives and support for science, and the governmental involvement in early modern commerce. Over the course of nearly two centuries (1594-1789), in adopting and adapting maps as tools of statecraft, the Bourbon Dynasty both developed patron-client relations with mapmakers and corporations and created scientific institutions with fundamental geographical goals. Concurrently, France—particularly, Paris—emerged as the dominant center of map production. Individual producers tapped the traditional avenues of patronage, touted the authority of science in their works, and sought both protection and legitimation for their commercial endeavors within the printing industry. Under the reign of the Sun King, these producers of geographical works enjoyed preeminence in the sphere of cartography and employed the familiar rhetoric of image to glorify the reign of Louis XIV. Later, as scientists and scholars embraced Enlightenment empiricism, geographical works adopted the rhetoric of scientific authority and championed the concept that rational thought would lead to progress. When France Was King of Cartography investigates over a thousand maps and nearly two dozen map producers, analyzes the map as a cultural artifact, map producers as a group, and the array of map viewers over the course of two centuries in France. The book focuses on situated knowledge or 'localized' interests reflected in these geographical productions. Through the lens of mapmaking, When France Was King of Cartography examines the relationship between power and the practice of patronage, geography, and commerce in early modern France.
Commerce of the Prairies
Author: Josiah GreggCapitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age
Author: Elizabeth A. SuttonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625478X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from circa 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as propaganda tools for the Dutch West India Company in order to encourage the commodification of land and an overall capitalist agenda.