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Written by David Stephens, this guide offers an overview of the history of maps and how historians use them, a breakdown of the elements of a map, tips on what questions to ask when analyzing maps, an annotated bibliography, and a guide to finding and using maps online.
Snow’s cholera map and the role of imagery intelligence during the Cuban missile crisis, Clark effectively balances historical discussion of maps, charts, and reconnaissance
17 cze 2021 · The historical map is a contemporary pedagogical device that depicts the configuration of territory through human action, but most importantly, it explains historical phenomena led by...
20 kwi 2017 · This historical analysis stimulated us to offer a new definition for the map that reflects our intention to provide a succinct and flexible, yet inclusive and sustainable definition of our...
20 kwi 2017 · Inspired by this historical review, we propose a new definition for the map concept by extending Robinson and Petchenik’s (Citation 1976) concise definition with the results of a recent crowdsourcing exercise sampled from participants within our discipline.
17 maj 2016 · Human geography took a postmodern turn in the 1990s, producing a form of inquiry that tied the study of geography with social justice and focused on pluralities, binaries, positionalities and deconstruction. Space, in the 1990s, appeared as a social construct in constant transformation.
power of maps, which can speak across the barriers of ordinary language. A group of American historians has asserted that maps "constitute a common language used by men of different races and tongues to express the relationship of their society. . . to a geographic envi-1 ronment.,,3 In the History o(Cartographywe have gone
