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Author Rankin, William, 1978- author.

Title After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century / William Rankin.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 398 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a "map-minded age," where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century's end, however, there had been a decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems. In After the Map, William Rankin argues that although this shift did no render traditional maps obsolete, it did radically change our experience of geographic knowledge, from the god's-eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS. Likewise, older concerns with geographic truth and objectivity have been upstaged by a new emphasis on simplicity, reliability, and convenience. After the Map shows how this change in geographic perspective is ultimately a transformation of the nature of territory, both social and political. --Dust jacket.
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Subject International map of the world 1:1,000,000 -- History.
International map of the world 1:1,000,000.
History.
International map of the world 1:1,000,000.
Cartography -- History -- 20th century.
Cartography.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Navigation -- History -- 20th century.
Navigation.
Global Positioning System -- History.
Global Positioning System.
Electronics in navigation -- History.
Grids (Cartography) -- History -- 20th century.
Universal transverse Mercator projection (Cartography) -- History.
Electronics in navigation.
Maps -- Political aspects -- 20th century.
Grids (Cartography)
Cartography -- Methodology.
Universal transverse Mercator projection (Cartography)
Maps.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
Cartography -- Methodology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Cartography.
Kartografie.
Navigation.
Territorialität.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Rankin, William, 1978- After the map. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226339368 022633936X (DLC) 2015037815 (OCoLC)919341737
ISBN 022633953X (electronic book)
9780226339535 (electronic book)
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