Zoom in on Political Maps

Zoom in on Political Maps
Author:
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0766092208

Where does Illinois end and Indiana begin? How do you know you are not entering Kentucky or Missouri instead? This informative look at political maps helps readers understand the symbols used for understanding political maps, including political borders and national and state capitals. Election maps and agricultural maps will also be explored as students analyze them for the information they provide. A follow-up activity leads students to make their own election map and write questions about it.

Maps and Politics

Maps and Politics
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1861898371

?We all rely on the apparent accuracy and objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Are the power and purpose of maps inherently political? Maps and Politics addresses this important question and seeks to emphasize that the apparent ‘objectivity’ of the map-making and map-using process cannot be divorced from aspects of the politics of representation. Maps have played, and continue to play, a major role in both international and domestic politics. They show how visual geographical representations can be made to reflect and advance political agendas in powerful ways. The major developments in this field over the last century are responses both to cartographic progression and to a greater emphasis on graphic imagery in societies affected by politicization, democratization, and consumer and cultural shifts. Jeremy Black asks whether bias-free cartography is possible and demonstrates that maps are not straightforward visual texts, but contain political and politicizing subtexts that need to be read with care.

Political Mapping of Cyberspace

Political Mapping of Cyberspace
Author: Jeremy Crampton
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2019-06-01
Genre: COMPUTERS
ISBN: 1474465927

This book is about the politics of cyberspace. It shows that cyberspace is no mere virtual reality but a rich geography of practices and power relations. Using concepts and methods derived from the work of Michel Foucault, Jeremy Crampton explores the construction of digital subjectivity, web identity and authenticity, as well as the nature and consequences of the digital divide between the connected and those abandoned in limbo. He demonstrates that it is by processes of mapping that we understand cyberspace and in doing so delineates the critical role maps play in constructing cyberspace as an object of knowledge. Maps, he argues, shape political thinking about cyberspace, and he deploys in-depth case studies of crime mapping, security and geo-surveillance to show how we map ourselves onto cyberspace, inexorably and indelibly. Clearly argued and vigorously written, this book offers a powerful reinterpretation of cyberspace, politics and contemporary life.

The Political Mapping of Cyberspace

The Political Mapping of Cyberspace
Author: Jeremy W. Crampton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780226117454

This book is about the politics of cyberspace. It shows that cyberspace is no mere virtual reality but a rich geography of practices and power relations. Using concepts and methods derived from the work of Michel Foucault, Jeremy Crampton explores the construction of digital subjectivity, web identity and authenticity, as well as the nature and consequences of the digital divide between the connected and those abandoned in limbo. He demonstrates that it is by processes of mapping that we understand cyberspace and in doing so delineates the critical role maps play in constructing cyberspace as an object of knowledge. Maps, he argues, shape political thinking about cyberspace, and he deploys in-depth case studies of crime mapping, security and geo-surveillance to show how we map ourselves onto cyberspace, inexorably and indelibly. Clearly argued and vigorously written this book offers a powerful reinterpretation of cyberspace, politics, and contemporary life.

100 Maps

100 Maps
Author: John O. E. Clark
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402728859

Presents a chronological overview of the history of cartography, from the earliest maps of prehistory to the engraved maps of the seventeenth century and beyond. Includes illustrations.

Ready-to-go Super Book of Outline Maps

Ready-to-go Super Book of Outline Maps
Author: Scholastic, Inc. Staff
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439117616

101 Reproducible outline maps of the continents, countries of the world, the 50 states, and more.

Great Maps

Great Maps
Author: Jerry Brotton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1465435611

The whole world is mapped out for your viewing pleasure in this captivating compendium, ranging from past to present through diverse themes of transport and technology to discoveries and development. Covering the classical maps of the ancient world and traveling through time to reach Google Earth in the 21st century, this unprecedented history of more than 60 maps opens up our planet as never before. Great Maps showcases early Medieval maps like including mappae mundi; iconic transport maps such as the London Underground; important travel maps including Dr. Livingstone's version of Africa; maps of natural wonders such as the ocean floor; and momentous moments including the marks on the Moon left by the lunar landings. There are maps that show the way to heaven, depict lands with no sunshine, and the mysterious home of "the people with no bowels" on this mind-blowing journey. Much more than just geographical data, maps are an accurate reflection of the culture and context of different time frames in history. British historian Jerry Brotton tells the amazing secret stories behind many of the most significant maps ever unearthed, revealing key features and innovative techniques in incredible detail. The unique insight into how mapmakers have expressed their world views results in this treasured book that makes a welcome addition to any bookshelf or home library.

Prisoners of Geography

Prisoners of Geography
Author: Tim Marshall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501121472

First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Elliott and Thompson Limited.

The Politics of Maps

The Politics of Maps
Author: Christine Leuenberger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190076232

Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material and gorgeously produced maps, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine.

Zoomland

Zoomland
Author: Florentina Armaselu
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 3111317773

Despite a variety of theoretical and practical undertakings, there is no coherent understanding of the concept of scale in digital history and humanities, and its potential is largely unexplored. A clearer picture of the whole spectrum is needed, from large to small, distant to close, global to local, general to specific, macro to micro, and the in-between levels. The book addresses these issues and sketches out the territory of Zoomland, at scale. Four regions and sixteen chapters are conceptually and symbolically depicted through three perspectives: bird's eye, overhead, and ground view. The variable-scale representation allows for exploratory paths covering areas such as: theoretical and applicative reflections on scale combining a digital dimension with research in history, media studies, cultural heritage, literature, text analysis, and map modelling; creative use of scale in new digital forms of analysis, data organisation, interfaces, and argumentative or artistic expressions. Zoomland provides a systematic discussion on the epistemological dimensions, hermeneutic methods, empirical tools, and aesthetic logic pertaining to scale and its innovative possibilities residing in humanities-based approaches and digital technologies.