The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography

The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography
ISBN-10
0801870909
ISBN-13
9780801870903
Category
History
Pages
331
Language
English
Published
2002-10-03
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
J. B. Harley

Description

In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.

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