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Maps & civilization : cartography in culture and society / Norman J.W. Thrower.
- Title
- Maps & civilization : cartography in culture and society / Norman J.W. Thrower.
- Author
- Thrower, Norman J. W. (Norman Joseph William)
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Thrower, Norman Joseph William.
- Description
- xiii, 326 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Maps and civilization
- Subject
- Cartography > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Rev. ed. of: Maps & man, 1972.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: maps of preliterate peoples -- Maps of classical antiquity -- Early maps of east and south Asia -- Cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages -- The rediscovery of Ptolemy and cartography in Renaissance Europe -- Cartography in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment -- Diversification and development in the nineteenth century -- Modern cartography: official and quasi-official maps -- Modern cartography: private and institutional maps.
- ISBN
- 0226799719 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226799727 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^95024656^
- OCLC
- 32859849
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library