Title & Author:

Cartographies of travel and navigation / edited by James R. Akerman.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Description:

ix, 372 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-346) and index.
Introduction / James R. Akerman -- Milieus of mobility : itineraries, route maps and road maps / Catherine Delano-Smith -- Surveying the seas : establishing the sea routes to the East Indies / Andrew S. Cook -- Mapping a transcontinental nation : nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American rail travel cartography / Jerry Musich -- Twentieth-century American road maps and the making of a national motorized space / James R. Akerman -- "Up in the air in more ways than one" : the emergence of aeronautical charts in the United States / Ralph E. Ehrenberg -- Maps on wheels : the evolution of automobile navigation / Robert L. French.

Summary:

"Examining the historical relationship between travelers, navigation, and maps, Cartographies of Travel and Navigation considers the cartographic response to the new modalities of modern travel brought about by technological and institutional developments in the twentieth century. Highlighting the ways in which the travelers, operators, and planners of modern transportation systems value maps as both navigation tools and as representations of a radical new mobility, this collection brings the cartography of travel - by road, sea, rail, and air - to the forefront, placing maps at the center of the history of travel and movement."--Jacket.

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

ISBN:

0226010740 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226010748 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Strassenkarte
Maps.
Navigation.
Map reading.
Navigation United States.
Map reading United States.
Maps as Topic
Cartes géographiques.
Lecture de cartes.
Navigation États-Unis.
Lecture de cartes États-Unis.
Karte
Kartografie
Luftfahrtkarte
Reise
Reisekarte
Seekarte
Kaarten (geografie)
Kaartlezen.
Reizen.
Kartographie Navigation Geschichte.
Navigation Kartographie Geschichte.
Kartographie Reise Geschichte.
Reise Kartographie Geschichte.
Kartographie.
United States
Verenigde Staten.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Maps
Cartes géographiques.

Added entries:

Akerman, James R.
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247393
Call No.: BIB 176919
Status: Available