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Germania und die Insel Thule
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 26.08Hauptbeschreibung "It is one of the most puzzling riddles of antiquity" galt seit 1952 für den Weltatlas des Klaudios Ptolemaios aus dem zweiten Jh. n. Chr. Doch was ist daran so rätselhaft? Die Schrift des großen Mathematikers und Geographen enthielt mutmaßlich keine Landkarten, wohl aber mehrere Tausend Städtenamen mit Angabe ihrer geographischen... more...
Die Kartenmacher
Primus Verlag 2011; US$ 16.20Hauptbeschreibung Die Stadt Nürnberg erlebte im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert ein goldenes Zeitalter. Gelehrte, Künstler und Kaufleute zog es in die Stadt, um am kulturellen und geistigen Leben dieses ?Mittelpunktes Europas" teilzuhaben. So wurde Nürnberg auch zum neuen Zentrum für Kartographie und Geographie. Der ?geistige Entdecker Amerikas", Martin... more...
Maps to the Other Side
Microcosm Publishing 2013; US$ 15.99Part mad manifesto, part revolutionary love letter, part freight train adventure story? Maps to the Other Side is a self-reflective shattered mirror, a twist on the classic punk rock travel narrative that searches for authenticity and connection in the lives of strangers and the solidarity and limitations of underground community. Beginning at the... more...
King's Two Maps
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95This book chronicles the specific technologies, material and epistemological, by which the map - a peculiar artefact, part image and part treatise - shows itself capable of accessing, organizing and reorienting a tremendous range of information. more...
Advances in Digital Terrain Analysis
Springer 2008; US$ 189.99Terrain analysis has been an active study field for years and attracted research studies from geographers, surveyors, engineers and computer scientists. With the rapid growth of Geographical Information System (GIS) technology, particularly the establishment of high resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM) at national level, the challenge is now focused... more...
Mapping Latin America
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 31.00For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn’t, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these... more...
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXIV
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 340.00Inquisitions post mortem are the single most important source for the history of medieval English landed society, and are indispensable to social, economic, and political historians of the later middle ages; compiled with the help of jurors from the area, they are a county-by-county record of a deceased individual's land-holdings and associated... more...
Scotland: Mapping the Nation
Birlinn 2013; US$ 18.94Whilst documents and other written material are obvious resources that help shape our view of the past, maps too can say much about a nation's history. This is the first book to take maps seriously as a form of history, from the earliest representations of Scotland by Ptolemy in the second century AD to the most recent form of Scotland's mapping and... more...









