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Rejecting static and reductionist understandings of subjectivity, this book asks how people find their place in the world. Mapping the Subject is an inter-disci
Mapping the Nation
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-29 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nin
Close Up at a Distance
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Authors: Laura Kurgan
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-26 - Publisher: MIT Press

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Maps poised at the intersection of art, architecture, activism, and geography trace a profound shift in our understanding and experience of space. The maps in t
Mappings
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Denis Cosgrove
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-04-01 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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Mappings explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social
Mapping an Empire
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Authors: Matthew H. Edney
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In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and