Cartographia Mapping Civilizations

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780316997669
• ISBN10: 0316997668
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-25
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

CARTOGRAPHIA offers a stunning array of 200 of the most beautiful, important, and fascinating maps in existence, from the world's largest cartographic collection, at the Library of Congress. These maps show how our idea of the world has shifted and grown over time, and each map tells its own unique story about nations, politics, and ambitions. The chosen images, with their accompanying stories, introduce the reader to an exciting new way of "reading" maps as travelogues---living history from the earliest of man's imaginings about planet earth to our current attempts at charting cyberspace.Among the rare gems included in the book are the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507, the first to include the designation "America"; pages from the Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570, considered the first modern atlas; rare maps from Africa, Asia, and Oceania that challenge traditional Western perspectives; William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 map of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi; and even a map of the Human Genome. In an oversized format, with gorgeous four-color reproductions throughout, Catrographia will appeal to collectors, historians, and anyone looking for a perfect gift.

Author Biography

Vincent Virga is the author of EYES OF THE NATION: A VISUAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, which was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Theater of the World	p. 1
Prologue	p. 5
The Mediterranean World
The Babylonians	p. 9
The Enyptians	p. 11
The Greeks	p. 14
The Etruscans	p. 18
The Romans	p. 19
The Islamic World	p. 26
The Holy Land	p. 31
The Mediterranean Sea	p. 36
The Three-Part World
Asia	p. 45
Africa	p. 94
Europe	p. 121
The Fourth Part: The Americas
Latin America	p. 178
Anglo America	p. 196
The Fifth Part: Oceania and Antarctica
Oceania	p. 233
Antarctica	p. 241
Epilogue: the unseen cultural world	p. 243
Afterword	p. 253
Acknowledgments	p. 254
Cartobibliography	p. 255
Index	p. 259
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