| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-05-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 267 pages | | Height: | 10.3 in | | Width: | 7.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 33.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past which is invaluable to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal what historians and educators of those periods thought important to include or omit. This book-the first comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the historical atlas-explores the role, development and nature of this important reference tool and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.
Industry Reviews
[Black's] analysis is much informed by J.B. Harley and D. Woodward's The History of Cartography. But this is a magisterial work in its own right. Profusely illustrated (28 of the 50 are in color), thoroughly footnoted, and lavishly and delightfully produced, Black's work is a provocative piece of scholarship. General readers; upper-division undergraduates and above.
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Osborne
[In this volume] Jeremy Black explains, succinctly but comprehensively, what historical atlases have shown in the past, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He demonstrates how they make up not merely a genre of carto-bibliography in their own right, but contribute more generally to the study of the past and, in particular, to that of ideas in the fields of national histories, international politics and ideologies. . . . The most thought-provoking parts of Black's book are the chapters on war, environment and ideology, in particular the historical-atlas treatment of twentieth-century issues.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Tyacke
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