Two Maps of 18th Century Dublin and Its Surroundings by John Rocque
Author | : John Harwood Andrews |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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Author | : John Harwood Andrews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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Author | : Colm Lennon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Dublin (Ireland) |
ISBN | : 9781904890690 |
Considers the map at the level of individual streets and buildings, revealing particular elements of Rocque's artistic cartography and aspects of Dublin's history.
Author | : John Rocque |
Publisher | : Steve Parish |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Dublin |
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Author | : John Montague (Architectural historian) |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : Mary Sponberg Pedley |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2022-06-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 022681758X |
Though the political and intellectual history of mapmaking in the eighteenth century is well established, the details of its commercial revolution have until now been widely scattered. In The Commerce of Cartography, Mary Pedley presents a vivid picture of the costs and profits of the mapmaking industry in England and France, and reveals how the economics of map trade affected the content and appearance of the maps themselves. Conceptualizing the relationship between economics and cartography, Pedley traces the process of mapmaking from compilation, production, and marketing to consumption, reception, and criticism. In detailing the rise of commercial cartography, Pedley explores qualitative issues of mapmaking as well. Why, for instance, did eighteenth-century ideals of aesthetics override the modern values of accuracy and detail? And what, to an eighteenth-century mind and eye, qualified as a good map? A thorough and engaging study of the business of cartography during the Enlightenment, The Commerce of Cartography charts a new cartographic landscape and will prove invaluable to scholars of economic history, historical geography, and the history of publishing.
Author | : David Dickson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2014-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674745043 |
Dublin has experienced great—and often astonishing—change in its 1,400 year history. It has been the largest urban center on a deeply contested island since towns first appeared west of the Irish Sea. There have been other contested cities in the European and Mediterranean world, but almost no European capital city, David Dickson maintains, has seen sharper discontinuities and reversals in its history—and these have left their mark on Dublin and its inhabitants. Dublin occupies a unique place in Irish history and the Irish imagination. To chronicle its vast and varied history is to tell the story of Ireland. David Dickson’s magisterial history brings Dublin vividly to life beginning with its medieval incarnation and progressing through the neoclassical eighteenth century, when for some it was the “Naples of the North,” to the Easter Rising that convulsed a war-weary city in 1916, to the bloody civil war that followed the handover of power by Britain, to the urban renewal efforts at the end of the millennium. He illuminates the fate of Dubliners through the centuries—clergymen and officials, merchants and land speculators, publishers and writers, and countless others—who have been shaped by, and who have helped to shape, their city. He reassesses 120 years of Anglo-Irish Union, during which Dublin remained a place where rival creeds and politics struggled for supremacy. A book as rich and diverse as its subject, Dublin reveals the intriguing story behind the making of a capital city.
Author | : A. Roger Ekirch |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393076792 |
The astonishing story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Kidnapped. In 1728, in the wake of his father’s death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion of Ireland’s mighty house of Annesley was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America as an indentured servant. Only after twelve more years did “Jemmy” Annesley at last escape, returning to Ireland to bring his blood rival, the Earl of Anglesea, to justice in one of the most captivating trials of the century. Hundreds of years later, historian A. Roger Ekirch delves into the court transcripts and rarely seen legal depositions that chronicle Jemmy’s attempt to reclaim his birthright, in the process vividly evoking the volatile world of Georgian Ireland—complete with its violence, debauchery, ancient rituals, and tenacious loyalties.