Cartophilia

Cartophilia
Author: Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 022617316X

The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed borderland that the French and Germans both claimed as their national territory. Desired for its prime geographical position and abundant natural resources, Alsace-Lorraine endured devastating wars from 1870 to 1945 that altered its borders four times, transforming its physical landscape and the political allegiances of its citizens. For the border population whose lives were turned upside down by the French-German conflict, maps became essential tools for finding a new sense of place and a new sense of identity in their changing national and regional communities. Turning to a previously undiscovered archive of popular maps, Cartophilia reveals Alsace-Lorraine’s lively world of citizen mapmakers that included linguists, ethnographers, schoolteachers, hikers, and priests. Together, this fresh group of mapmakers invented new genres of maps that framed French and German territory in original ways through experimental surveying techniques, orientations, scales, colors, and iconography. In focusing on the power of “bottom-up” maps to transform modern European identities, Cartophilia argues that the history of cartography must expand beyond the study of elite maps and shift its emphasis to the democratization of cartography in the modern world.

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Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
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Total Pages: 1212
Release: 1873
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Working Women, 1800-2017

Working Women, 1800-2017
Author: Martine Stirling
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527568741

This book examines how, over the past 300 years or so, women have adapted their work methods, means of subsistence and daily routine to fulfil their dual role as carers and breadwinners. From the industrial revolution, which ended agrarian-based subsistence and meant an exodus towards the cities for many families, to the digital revolution, which redefined the work environment, working hours and even in some cases biological functions, women have succeeded in meeting the challenge of changing work practices, social expectations and economic and family needs. Although women’s work, both past and present, is a much-researched area, this volume sheds new light on the subject by combining the approach of historians, sociologists, and language and culture specialists, and applying it to different countries. Drawing upon original fieldwork and little-known archives, the book will be of interest not only to an academic audience, but to anyone wanting to know more about gender, family, and labour issues across Europe between the 19th and 21st centuries.

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: F. Martin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 794
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230253040

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Knut Wicksell

Knut Wicksell
Author: Bo Sandelin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135748918

This book, along with its predecessor, makes most of Wicksell's most important contributions accessible to English speaking readers for the first time. The essays collected here, first published in 1999, focus on money and price theory and include Wicksell's book reviews of Leon Walrus, Ludwig von Mises and John Bates Clark.