• 1. Information and the cure
• 2. What the writers say
• 3. The republican lure
• 4. The Blacks and nationhood
• 5. Feminists and nationhood
• 6. The Whites and nationhood
• 7. A case of Leadership
• Person index
• General Index

This book illustrates the first connection between the map user community and the developers of digital map processing technologies by providing several applications, challenges, and best practices in working with historical maps. After the introduction chapter, in this book, Chapter 2 presents a variety of existing applications of historical maps to demonstrate varying needs for processing historical maps in scientific studies (e.g., thousands of historical maps from a map series vs. a few historical maps from various publishers and with different cartographic styles). Chapter 2 also describes case studies introducing typical types of semi-automatic and automatic digital map processing technologies. The case studies showcase the strengths and weaknesses of semi-automatic and automatic approaches by testing them in a symbol recognition task on the same scanned map. Chapter 3 presents the technical challenges and trends in building a map processing, modeling, linking, and publishing framework. The framework will enable querying historical map collections as a unified and structured spatiotemporal source in which individual geographic phenomena (extracted from maps) are modeled (described) with semantic descriptions and linked to other data sources (e.g., DBpedia, a structured version of Wikipedia). Chapter 4 dives into the recent advancement in deep learning technologies and their applications on digital map processing. The chapter reviews existing deep learning models for their capabilities on geographic feature extraction from historical maps and compares different types of training strategies. A comprehensive experiment is described to compare different models and their performance. Historical maps are fascinating to look at and contain valuable retrospective place information difficult to find elsewhere. However, the full potential of historical maps has not been realized because the users of scanned historical maps and the developers of digital map processing technologies are from a wide range of disciplines and often work in silos. Each chapter in this book can be read individually, but the order of chapters in this book helps the reader to first understand the "product requirements" of a successful digital map processing system, then review the existing challenges and technologies, and finally follow the more recent trend of deep learning applications for processing historical maps. The primary audience for this book includes scientists and researchers whose work requires long-term historical geographic data as well as librarians. The secondary audience includes anyone who loves maps!.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Sponsor’s forward
• Director’s forward
• Introduction Troy: Fall of a city, rise of a legend
• 1 Storytellers
• 2 The myth of the Trojan war
• 3 Archaeological Troy
• 4 Troy: Enduring Stories
• Epilogue The Shield of Achilles
• Map
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Picture credits
• List of lenders
• Acknowledgements
• Index

• Introducing the ideal of cartography
• Seeing, and seeing past, the ideal
• Cartography's idealized preconceptions
• The ideal of cartography emerges
• Map scale and cartography's idealized geometry
• Not cartography, but mapping.

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what "cartography" has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps-sea charts versus thematic maps, for example-in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• cARTography / G. Salim Mohammed
• Maps and art - look again / Emily Prince and David Rumsey
• Index of maps and art
• My high noon / Jordan Stein
• Maps and art pairs
• Notes on maps and art pairs / Emily Prince and David Rumsey
• Exhibition checklist

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1
• 1. Henricus Martellus and his Works 6
• Biographical Information 6
• Manuscripts of Ptolemy's Geography 8
• Manuscripts of Martellus's Insularium illustratum 11
• Separate World Maps 18
• 2. The Legends on the Yale Martellus Map 35
• Legends Outside of the Map Proper 37
• Legends Describing the Winds 37
• Text in the Lower Left Corner 43
• Text in the Lower Right Corner 45
• Legends in the Oceans 49
• Legends in the Northern Ocean 49
• Legend in the Atlantic Ocean 52
• Legends in the Western Indian Ocean 53
• Legends in the Eastern Indian Ocean 59
• Legends in the Proto-Pacific 63
• Legends on Land 73
• Legends in Northern Asia 73
• Legends in Central Asia 91
• Legends in Southern Asia 92
• Legends in Northern Africa 98
• 3. Toponyms in Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia 104
• 4. Toponyms on the Western and Southern Coasts of Africa 107
• 5. Southern Africa and the Egyptus novelo maps 117
• 6. The Influence of the Yale Martellus Map 141 Conclusions 161 Appendix: Equipment and Techniques Used in the Multispectral Imaging of the Yale Martellus Map, by Roger Easton, Gregory Heyworth, and Kenneth Boydston 162.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility. Multispectral imaging of the map, performed with NEH support in 2014, rendered its texts legible for the first time, leading to renewed study of the map by the author. This volume provides transcriptions, translations, and commentary on the Latin texts on the map, particularly their sources, as well as the place names in several regions. This leads to a demonstration of a very close relationship between the Martellus map and Martin Waldseemuller's famous map of 1507. One of the most exciting discoveries on the map is in the hinterlands of southern Africa. The information there comes from African sources; the map is thus a unique and supremely important document regarding African cartography in the fifteenth century. This book is essential reading for digital humanitarians and historians of cartography.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Line, color, area, symbol. 1200 years of visually transferring knowledge / Sandra Rengen
• Middle Ages
• Seeing data through maps / David Rumsey
• Early Modern Age
• Mining gems from the history of data visualization / Michael Friendly
• 19th century
• Understanding humans and machines / Michael Stoll
• 20th century
• The forgotten origins of news infographics / Scott Klein
• Appendix

In the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travel every further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online attention, infographics have swept center stage. At once nuanced and neat, data graphics can distill abstract ideas, complex statistics, and cutting edge discoveries into succinct, compelling, and masterful designs. Cartographers, programmers, designers, statisticians, scientists, and journalists are joining their expertise in visualizing complex knowledge. This far-reaching compendium now discovers the rich history of the infographic form, tracing its evolution from the Middle Ages right through to the digital era. Curated by Sandra Rendgen, the book offers an at once stunning and systematic overview of visual communication, gathering some 400 examples across astronomy, cartography, zoology, technology, and beyond. The collection is expansive in culture and geography, incorporating medieval manuscripts and parchment rolls, elaborate maps splendid popular atlases, and early computer-based information design. Highlights include Martin Waldseemüller’s famous world map, Andreas Cellarius’s cosmic charts, and Ernst Haeckel’s meticulous nature studies, alongside many unknown treasures. The author’s introductory essay and precise captions bread down each work’s historical context and the selection is framed by four chapters showcasing the special historical collections of infographic specialists David Rumsey, Michael Friendly, Michael Stoll, and Scott Klien. jacket cover.

• Introduction
• Growing into the arts
• Wanderlust, vaqueros, and the missions of California
• Off to the Sierra
• Yosemite and the trail to Arizona
• Hopi land: a dream come true
• Settling and working in California
• Training for the Great War
• The lure to the Monterey Peninsula
• Mapping history: the cartes
• Jo Mora as writer and illustrator
• Abounding talent: etchings and dioramas
• The end of the trail: putting away the sculpting tools
• Afterword
• Appendix I: Jo Mora public sculpture and architectural adornments
• Appendix II: Selected Jo Mora exhibitions.

Although the ultimate prize of the Great Game played out between Great Britain and Imperial Russia in the 19th century was India, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan and Tibet. Maps and knowledge of the enemy were crucial elements in Britain's struggle to defend the 'jewel in the crown'. The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India had been founded in the 18th century, with the aim of creating a detailed map of the country. While most people today are readily able to identify the world's highest mountain, few know of the man, George Everest, whom it was named after, or the accomplishment that earned him this singular honor. Under his leadership, the Survey of India mapped the Great Arc, which was then lauded as 'one of the greatest works in the whole history of science', though it cost more in monetary terms and human lives than many contemporary Indian wars. Much of the work of the Survey was undertaken by native Indians, known as Pundits, who were trained to explore, spy out and map Central Asia and Tibet. They did this at great personal risk and with meager resources, while traveling entirely on foot. They would be the first to reveal the mysteries of the forbidden city of Lhasa; and discover the true course of Tibet's mighty Tsangpo River. They were the greatest group of explorers the world has seen in recent history - yet they remain the classic unsung heroes of the British Raj. The story of these extraordinary pioneers who explored much of Asia during the 19th century to fill in large portions of its map, and spy out the region for military reasons is often forgotten, but Riaz Dean's vivid account of their exploits, their adventurous spirit and their tenacity in the face of great adversity, all set within the context of the Great Game and the Survey of India, will finally bring them the attention they deserve.

• Foreward : the full Monte / Barry Lawrence Ruderman
• Introduction : Urbano Monte's remarkable world map / David Rumsey
• The first of Urbano Monte's large planispheres / Katherine Parker
• The Rumsey example / Katherine Parker
• Monte's first geographic work and the Japanese embassy / Katherine Parker
• Trattato Universale and the planisphere projections / Katherine Parker
• The Monte planisphere in sixteenth-century Italian geographic culture / Katherine Parker
• Bibliography
• About the author

"Il fut un temps où les cartes étaient rares et précieuses, dessinées et peintes à la main avec un grand soin esthétique, et où leur capacité à montrer le monde tel qu'il paraît importait plus que les calculs d'échelle et d'orientation précises. À l'aube de la Renaissance, les artistes furent ainsi les professionnels privilégiés pour la confection de cartes locales et régionales. Ils y mirent leur savoir-faire et leur ingéniosité, inventant un genre de représentation de l'espace tout à fait particulier. Celui-ci répondait aussi à la demande de leurs contemporains, car les cartes étaient commanditées dans un but pratique : résoudre des conflits judiciaires, tracer une frontière, analyser des fortifications, projeter des travaux, commémorer des événements historiques. Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et figures de l'espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance retrace l'histoire de cette aventure méconnue. La centaine de cartes, vues et "figures" qui y sont présentées témoigne de la puissance d'une cartographie fondée sur des procédés visuels plutôt que sur des applications mathématiques pourtant en cours de réapparition, et nous incite à reconsidérer nos hypothèses et nos attentes en matière de cartographie : que doit représenter une carte ? À quels enjeux répond-elle ? Y a-t-il une vérité cartographique ? Dans quelle mesure les cartes anciennes ont-elles posé les bases de la cartographie que nous utilisons aujourd'hui ? Sous la direction de Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, Nadine Gastaldi et Camille Serchuk"--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: Confluence, Creolization, liminal crisis, and the antislavery north
• Structures, challenged : the rise of abolitionism and antislavery
• Structure defended : the Compromise of 1850
• Liminality erupting in the first crisis : fugitives and the northern public
• Creative liminality : writing and reading Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Transforming culture : commercializing antislavery
• Guarantees violated in the second crisis : the Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Restructuring coalescence : nativism and antislavery politics
• Confirming and consolidating new structures : the rise of the Republican Party
• Epilogue: Into the war.

How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the "North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling North" offered no forceful opposition to the power of the slaveholding South. And yet, as John L. Brooke proves, the North did change. Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped slavery and the cultural craze that was Uncle Tom's Cabin, the North rose up to battle slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War.While Lincoln's alleged quip about the little woman who started the big war has been oft-repeated, scholars have not fully explained the dynamics between politics and culture in the decades leading up to 1861. Rather than simply viewing the events of the 1850s through the lens of party politics, "There Is a North" is the first book to explore how cultural action -- including minstrelsy, theater, and popular literature -- transformed public opinion and political structures. Taking the North's rallying cry as his Title, Brooke shows how the course of history was forever changed.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Created for map lovers by map lovers, this book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the ancient art of cartography still thrives today. In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic cartography blog "All Over the Map"--explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers, curators, historians, and scholars, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps--some never before published. This diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas, elaborate maps of hidden worlds from inside Earth to outer space, devious maps created by spies, and cutting-edge data-based cartography showing the ebb and flow of modern cities. If your brain craves maps--and Mason and Miller would say it does, whether you know it or not--this eye-opening visual feast will inspire and delight.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• To the reader
• Prologue
• Chapter 1. "Tear in pieces the doctors"
• Chapter 2. "An endless source of innocent delight"
• Chapter 3. "Ripping open my belly"
• Chapter 4. "He is as good as the theatre"
• Chapter 5. "The grass is three feet high in the streets"
• Chapter 6. "Doctor, I despair"
• Chapter 7. "There are no informed people here"
• Chapter 8. "H-K is enough, and even that unnecessary"
• Chapter 9. "This delicious banquet"
• Chapter 10. "I long to see Captain Lewis"
• Chapter 11. "Strange noises, low spirits"
• Chapter 12. "Such a piece of downright imposture"
• Chapter 13. "You know, better than any man"
• Chapter 14. "Instead of creeping along the earth"
• Chapter 15. "Your fortunate city"
• Chapter 16. "Expulsion from the Garden of Eden"
• Chapter 17. "Like a romance"
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Sources and Bibliography
• Illustration Credits
• Index

When Dr David Hosack tilled the America's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences. A charismatic dreamer admired by the likes of Jefferson, Madison and Humboldt, and intimate friends with both Hamilton and Burr, the Columbia professor devoted his life to inspiring Americans to pursue medicine and botany with a rigour to rival Europe's. Though he was shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding fathers Hosack and his story remain unknown. Now, in melodic prose, Victoria Johnson eloquently chronicles Hosack's tireless career to reveal the breadth of his impact.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

During the early modern period in Japan, peace and prosperity allowed elite and popular arts and culture to flourish in Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The historic first showing outside Japan of Ito Jakuchu's thirty-scroll series titled Colorful Realm of Living Beings (ca. 1757-66) in 2012 prompted a reimagining of artists and art making in this context. These essays give attention to Jakuchu's spectacular series as well as to works by a range of contemporary artists. Selected contributions address issues of professional roles, including copying and imitation, display and memorialization, and makers' identities. Some explore the new form of painting, ukiyo-e, in the context of the urban society that provided its subject matter and audiences; others discuss the spectrum of amateur and professional Edo pottery and interrelationships between painting and other media. Together, they reveal the fluidity and dynamism of artists' identities during a time of great significance in the country's history.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)