{"product_id":"the-new-nature-of-maps-essays-in-the-history-of-cartography-9780801870903","title":"The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional, \"positivist\" model of cartography, replacing it with one that is grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps. He defines a map as a \"social construction\" and argues that maps are not simple representations of reality but exert profound influences upon the way space is conceptualized and organized. A central theme is the way in which power--whether military, political, religious, or economic--becomes inscribed on the land through cartography. In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. B. Harley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.14w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801870903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. B. Harley \u003c\/b\u003electured in historical geography at the Universities of Liverpool and Exeter before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His ideas on the meaning of maps have influenced not just geographers and map historians but also students of art history and literature. At Milwaukee he began, with David Woodward, the multivolume \u003ci\u003eHistory of Cartography, \u003c\/i\u003e the first volume of which was published in 1987. \u003cb\u003ePaul Laxton \u003c\/b\u003electured in the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool for more than thirty years. He is now an independent scholar. \u003cb\u003eJ. H. Andrews\u003c\/b\u003e is a retired professor of geography at Trinity College, Dublin and author of \u003ci\u003eA Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth-Century Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShapes of Ireland.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40798378033267,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_da966499-3972-4d70-88db-2373ed6a88bf.jpg?v=1682087458","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-new-nature-of-maps-essays-in-the-history-of-cartography-9780801870903","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}