Main entry:

Harley, J. B. (John Brian)

Title & Author:

The new nature of maps : essays in the history of cartography / J.B. Harley ; edited by Paul Laxton ; introduction by J.H. Andrews.

Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001.

Description:

xv, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Plates, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
Texts and contexts in the interpretation of early maps -- Maps, knowledge, and power -- Silences and secrecy: the hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe -- Power and legitimation in the English geographical atlases of the eighteenth century -- Deconstructing the map -- New England cartography and the Native Americans -- Can there be a cartographic ethics?

Summary:

"Focusing on historical examples and the practices of modern cartography, J.B. Harley (1932-1991) offers an alternative to the dominant view that Western cartography since the Renaissance has been a progressive technological, scientific, and objective trajectory of development. This traditional view asserts that maps produce an accurate relational model of terrain and, as such, epitomize representational modernism, which is rooted in the project of the Enlightenment; in sum, maps banish subjectivity from the image. Accordingly, cartographers have promoted a standard scientific model for their discipline, one in which a mirror of nature can be projected through geometry and measurement. Cartographers often mistakenly assess early maps by this modern yardstick, excising from the accepted canon of mapping not only maps from the premodern era but also those from other cultures that do not match Western notions of accuracy."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801865662 (alk. paper)
9780801865664 (alk. paper)
9780801870903
0801870909

Subject:

Cartography History.
Cartographie Histoire.
Cartography
Geografie
Geschichte
Illustration
Karte
Kartografie
Historische Kartografie
Historische Karte
Interpretation
Cartografie.
World. History of cartography. [literature] 2001.
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Essays.
History

Added entries:

Laxton, Paul.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217393
Call No.: GA201 .H3 2001
Status: Available