Titre et auteur:

From sea charts to satellite images : interpreting North American history through maps / edited by David Buisseret.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Description:

xvi, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The European antecedents of new world maps / David Buisseret -- Maps of the age of European exploration / David B. Quinn -- Eighteenth-century large-scale maps / Louis DeVorsey -- Maps of the township and range system / Ronald E. Grim -- Nineteenth-century landscape views / David Buisseret -- Bird's-eye views of towns and cities ; City maps and plans / Gerald Danzer -- North American county maps and atlases / Michael P. Conzen -- Two examples of thematic maps : civil war and fire insurance maps / Robert Karrow and Ronald E. Grim -- Topographic surveys of the United States / Robert Karrow -- Twentieth-century highway maps / Thomas Schlereth -- Aerial imagery / David Buisseret and Christopher Baruth.

Résumé:

"The authors write authoritatively and crisply . . . . How to use maps in teaching is spelled out carefully, but the authors also manage to sketch in the background of American mapping so the book is both a manual and a history. Commentaries are sprinkled with stimulating new ideas, for instance on how to use bird's-eye views and country atlases in the classroom, and there are didactic discussions on maps showing the walking city and the impact of the street car. "An extraordinarily wide range of maps is depicted, which makes for good browsing, pondering and close study. . . . This is a very good, highly attractive, and worthwhile book; it will have great impact on the use of old (and new!) maps in teaching. As well, this is a tantalizing survey of mapping the United States and will whet the appetites of students and encourage them to learn more about maps and their origins."--John Warketin, "Cartographica.

Ressources:
Table of contents
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0226079910 (alk. paper)
9780226079912 (alk. paper)
0226079929 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226079929 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Cartography History.
Cartographie Histoire.
74.25 geography of North America.
Cartography
Historical geography
Geschichte
Karte
Kartografie
Cartografie.
United States Historical geography Maps.
North America Historical geography Maps.
États-Unis Géographie historique Cartes.
Amérique du Nord Géographie historique Cartes.
North America
United States
Nordamerika

Classification/genre:

Maps.
History
History (form)
Cartes géographiques.

Vedettes secondaires:

Buisseret, David, editor.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 52838
Cote: ID:90-B1650
Statut: Disponible