Titre : | After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | William Rankin (1978-....), Auteur | Editeur : | Chicago : University of Chicago press | Année de publication : | 2016 | Importance : | 398 p. | Présentation : | ill. en coul. | Format : | 26 cm | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-226-33936-8 | Note générale : | Bibliogr. p.309-375, index | Langues : | Anglais | Catégories : | Cartographie Pratiques politiques Territoire national XX°
| Note de contenu : | Introduction: Territory and the mapping sciences ; I. The international map of the world and the logic of representation. 1. The authority of representation : a single map for all countries, 1891-1939 ; 2. Maps as tools : globalism, regionalism, and the erosion of universal cartography, 1940-1965 ; II. Cartographic grids and new territories of calculation. 3. Aiming guns, recording land, and stitching map to territory : the invention of cartographic grid systems, 1914-1939 ; 4. Territoriality without borders : global grids and the universal transverse Mercator, 1940-1965 ; III. Electronic navigation and territorial pointillism. 5. Inhabiting the grid : radionavigation and electronic coordinates, 1920-1965 ; 6. The politics of global coverage : the Navy, NASA, and GPS, 1960-2010 ; Conclusion: The politics in my pocket. |
After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century [texte imprimé] / William Rankin (1978-....), Auteur . - Chicago : University of Chicago press, 2016 . - 398 p. : ill. en coul. ; 26 cm. ISBN : 978-0-226-33936-8 Bibliogr. p.309-375, index Langues : Anglais Catégories : | Cartographie Pratiques politiques Territoire national XX°
| Note de contenu : | Introduction: Territory and the mapping sciences ; I. The international map of the world and the logic of representation. 1. The authority of representation : a single map for all countries, 1891-1939 ; 2. Maps as tools : globalism, regionalism, and the erosion of universal cartography, 1940-1965 ; II. Cartographic grids and new territories of calculation. 3. Aiming guns, recording land, and stitching map to territory : the invention of cartographic grid systems, 1914-1939 ; 4. Territoriality without borders : global grids and the universal transverse Mercator, 1940-1965 ; III. Electronic navigation and territorial pointillism. 5. Inhabiting the grid : radionavigation and electronic coordinates, 1920-1965 ; 6. The politics of global coverage : the Navy, NASA, and GPS, 1960-2010 ; Conclusion: The politics in my pocket. |
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