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Mappings
Title:
Mappings

Critical views

Critical views.
Author:
Cosgrove, Denis E.
ISBN:
9781861890214
Publication Information:
London : Reaktion, 2002.
Physical Description:
viii, 311 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
Series:
Critical views

Critical views.
General Note:
Originally published: 1999.
Contents:
Introduction: mapping meaning / Denis Cosgrove -- Mapping in the mind: the Earth from ancient Alexandria / Christian Jacob -- Mapping Eden: cartographies of the earthly paradise / Alessandro Scafi -- Terrestrial globalism: mapping the globe in early modern Europe / Jerry Brotton -- Mapping places: chorography and vision in the renaissance / Lucia Nuti -- Mapping, the body and desire: Christopher Packe's chorography of Kent / Michael Charlesworth -- Dark with excess of bright: mapping the coastlines of knowledge / Paul Carter -- Mapping tropical waters: British views and visions of Rio de Janeiro / Luciana de Lima Martins -- Mapping modernity: utopia and communications networks / Armand Mattelart -- The uses of cartographic literacy: mapping, survey and citizenship in twentieth-century Britain / David Matless -- The agency of mapping: speculation, critique and invention / James Corner -- Mapping and the expanded field of contemporary art / Wystan Curnow.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-300), bibliography (p. 301-303) and index.
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