Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for Identity in the...

  • Main
  • Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for...

Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland

Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
Bạn thích cuốn sách này tới mức nào?
Chất lượng của file scan thế nào?
Xin download sách để đánh giá chất lượng sách
Chất lượng của file tải xuống thế nào?
The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed borderland that the French and Germans both claimed as their national territory. Desired for its prime geographical position and abundant natural resources, Alsace-Lorraine endured devastating wars from 1870 to 1945 that altered its borders four times, transforming its physical landscape and the political allegiances of its citizens. For the border population whose lives were turned upside down by the French-German conflict, maps became essential tools for finding a new sense of place and a new sense of identity in their changing national and regional communities.
Turning to a previously undiscovered archive of popular maps, Cartophilia reveals Alsace-Lorraine’s lively world of citizen mapmakers that included linguists, ethnographers, schoolteachers, hikers, and priests. Together, this fresh group of mapmakers invented new genres of maps that framed French and German territory in original ways through experimental surveying techniques, orientations, scales, colors, and iconography. In focusing on the power of “bottom-up” maps to transform modern European identities, Cartophilia argues that the history of cartography must expand beyond the study of elite maps and shift its emphasis to the democratization of cartography in the modern world.
Năm:
2015
Nhà xuát bản:
University of Chicago Press
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
280
ISBN 10:
022617316X
ISBN 13:
9780226173160
File:
PDF, 6.66 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2015
Đọc online
Hoàn thành chuyển đổi thành trong
Chuyển đổi thành không thành công

Từ khóa thường sử dụng nhất