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The sovereign map : theoretical approaches in cartography throughout history / Christian Jacob ; translated by Tom Conley ; edited by Edward H. Dahl

Author
Jacob, Christian, 1955-
Uniform Title
Empire des cartes. English
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Edition
[English-language ed.].
Physical Description
xxiii, 417 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Dahl, Edward H.

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Contents
What is a map? -- There are maps, and there are maps -- The map as mediation -- The raw materials of the map -- The printed map -- The atlas: a book of maps -- Pragmatics of the consultation of the map -- Tentative definitions -- Graphics, geometry, & figuration -- The border and graphic representation -- The framework and the Marteloio -- Forms and contours of the Earth -- Order/disorder: the minimal units of graphics -- "Hic sunt leones" -- The visible and reason -- Maps & writing -- The title of the map -- Names on the map: toponymy -- The map and its legends -- The cartographic image: the eye & memory -- Imaginary maps: a poetics of the drawing and the gaze -- Cartographic reading as construction -- Imaginary drifts -- From the map to geography: stages of an apprenticeship.
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ISBN
0226389537 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Note
"Originally published as L'empire des cartes: Approche théorique de la cartographie à travers l'histoire, Éditions Albin Michel, 1992"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-401) and index.
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