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Record Nr.

UNINA9910366645403321

Titolo

Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea : 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2018 / / edited by Alexander James Kent, Soetkin Vervust, Imre Josef Demhardt, Nick Millea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-23447-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages)

Collana

Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA), , 2195-1713

Disciplina

526.09

Soggetti

Geographic information systems

Human geography

Imperialism

Geographical Information System

Human Geography

Imperialism and Colonialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The overall conference theme was ‘Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea’. The book presents a breadth of original research undertaken by internationally recognized authors in the field of historical cartography and offers a significant contribution to the development of this growing field and to many interdisciplinary aspects of geography, history and the geographic information sciences. It is intended for researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.