After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century /
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2018
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| Vydání: | Paperback edition 2018 |
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Obsah:
- Introduction: territory and the mapping sciences
- The international map of the world and the logic of representation
- The authority of representation
- A single map for all countries, 1891-1939
- Maps as tools
- Globalism, regionalism, and the erosion of universal cartography, 1940-1965
- Cartographic grids and new territories of calculation
- Aiming guns, recording land, and stitching map to territory
- The invention of cartographic grid systems, 1914-1939
- Territoriality without borders
- Global grids and the universal transverse Mercator, 1940-1965
- Electronic navigation and territorial pointillism
- Inhabiting the grid
- Radionavigation and electronic coordinates, 1920-1965
- The politics of global coverage
- The Navy, NASA, and GPS, 1960-2010
- Conclusion: the politics in my pocket