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• Introduction
• 1: Networks of Cartographic Influence, Patronage, and Reception
• 2: Provincial Map Production and the Rise of Cartographic Entrepreneurship
• 3: The Baltic Question in Cartographic Imagination
• 4: Mapping Latvians in Local and Global Perspectives
• 5: Post-War Ethnic Boundary Mapping from Above and Below Epilogue: Afterlives of Maps.
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Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a form of visual and material culture that gave expression to territorialised visions of nationhood. In the Russian Empire's Baltic provinces, the development of ethnographic cartography, as part of the broader field of statistical data visualisation, progressively became a tool that lent legitimacy and an experiential dimension to nationalist arguments, as well as a wide range of alternative spatial configurations that rendered the inhabitants of the Baltic as part of local, imperial, and global geographies. Catherine Gibson argues that map production and the spread of cartographic literacy as a mass phenomenon in Baltic society transformed how people made sense of linguistic, ethnic, and religious similarities and differences by imbuing them with an alleged scientific objectivity that was later used to determine the political structuring of the Baltic region and beyond. Geographies of Nationhood treads new ground by expanding the focus beyond elites to include a diverse range of mapmakers, such as local bureaucrats, commercial enterprises, clergymen, family members, teachers, and landowners. It shifts the focus from imperial learned and military institutions to examine the proliferation of mapmaking across diverse sites in the Empire, including the provincial administration, local learned societies, private homes, and schools. Understanding ethnographic maps in the social context of their production, circulation, consumption, and reception is crucial for assessing their impact as powerful shapers of popular geographical conceptions of nationhood, state-building, and border-drawing.
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• Foreword / David Dudley
• Introduction: Why maps mattered during the pandemic / Laura Bliss -- Domestic rearrangements. Finding home in a locked-down world / Taien Ng-Chan
• Redefined communities. Topographies of attention / Jenny Odell
• Street notations / Geoff Manaugh
• Natural callings. The trail that led to confidence / Linda Poon
• Virtual connections. Just show me where my friends are / Sarah Holder
• Psychic Landscapes. A place for all the grief to go / Angely Mercado
• On the front lines of crisis / Laura Bliss
• Social change. The pandemic made me an un-urban planner / Dr. Destiny Thomas
• Afterword: A tiny newborn world / Jessica Lee Martin

In April 2020, Bloomberg CityLab journalists Laura Bliss and Jessica Martin asked readers to submit homemade maps of their lives during the coronavirus pandemic. The response was illuminating and inspiring. The 400+ maps and accompanying stories received served as windows into what individuals around the world were experiencing during the crisis and its resonant social consequences. Collectively, these works showed how coronavirus has transformed the places we live, and our relationships to them. In The Quarantine Atlas, Bliss distills these stunning submissions and pairs them with essays by journalists and authors, as well as notes from the original mapmakers. The result is an enduring visual record of this unprecedented moment in human history. It is also a celebration of the act of mapping and the ways maps can help us connect and heal from our shared experience.
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• Introduction: America's Business with China Chapter One Founding a Free, Trading Republic Chapter Two The Paradox of a Pacific Policy Chapter Three Troubled Waters Chapter Four Sovereign Rights, or America's First Opium Problem Chapter Five The Empire's New Roads Chapter Six This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century Chapter Seven A Propped-Open Door Chapter Eight Death of a Trade, Birth of a Market Acknowledgments Appendix: Accounting for the China Trade Notes Index .
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Trading Freedom explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic. The economic and geographic development of the early United States is usually thought of in trans-Atlantic terms, defined by entanglements with Europe and Africa. In Trading Freedom, Dael A. Norwood recasts these common conceptions by looking to Asia, making clear that from its earliest days, the United States has been closely intertwined with China-monetarily, politically, and psychologically. Norwood details US trade with China from the late eighteenth through the late nineteenth centuries-a critical period in America's self-definition as a capitalist nation-and shows how global commerce was central to the articulation of that national identity. Trading Freedom illuminates how debates over political economy and trade policy, the building of the transcontinental railroad, and the looming sectional struggle over slavery were all influenced by Sino-American relations. Deftly weaving together interdisciplinary threads from the worlds of commerce, foreign policy, and immigration, Trading Freedom thoroughly dismantles the idea that American engagement with China is anything new. .
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• Directors' foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors to the catalogue
• Lenders to the exhibition
• Reconsidering Winslow Homer : methods and meanings / Sylvia Yount
• Frontier, ocean, empire : vistas of expansion in Winslow Homer's United States / Daniel Immerwahr
• Plates : Civil War and Reconstruction
• "The various colors and types of negroes" : Winslow Homer learns to paint race / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
• Plates : waterside and rescue
• "These works are real" : Winslow Homer and Europe / Christopher Riopelle
• Plates : along the gulf stream
• Crosscurrents : conflict, nature, and mortality in Winslow Homer's art / Stephanie L. Herdrich
• Plates : nature and mortality
• Notes
• Selected bibliography
• Index
• Photography credits

Long celebrated as the quintessential New England regionalist, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) in fact brushed a much wider canvas, traveling throughout the Atlantic world and frequently engaging in his art with issues of race, imperialism, and the environment. This publication focuses, for the first time, on the watercolors and oil paintings Homer made during visits to Bermuda, Cuba, coastal Florida, and the Bahamas. In particular, The Gulf Stream (1899), an iconic painting long considered the most consequential of his career, reveals the artist's lifelong fascination with struggle and conflict. The book also includes Homer's depictions of rural life and the sea, in which he grapples with the violence of nature, as well as his Civil War and Reconstruction paintings of the 1860s and 1870s, which explore the unresolved effects of the war on the landscape, soldiers, and the formerly enslaved. Recognizing the artist's keen ability to distill complex issues in his work, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents upends popular conceptions and convincingly argues that Homer's work resonates with the challenges of the present day. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (11.04.-31.07.2022) / National Gallery, London, UK (10.09.2022 - 08.01.2023)

• Introduction / Lauren Jacobi and Daniel M. Zolli
• 1. Generation and Ruination in the Display of Michelangelo's Non-finito / Carolina Mangone
• 2. The Sacrilege of Soot: Liturgical Decorum and the Black Madonna of Loreto / Grace Harpster
• 3. Sedimentary Aesthetics / Christopher Nygren
• 4. 'Adding to the Good Silver with Other Trickery': Purity and Contamination in Clement VII's Emergency Currency' / Allison Stielau
• 5. Tapestry as Tainted Medium: Charles V's Conquest of Tunis / Sylvia Houghteling
• 6. Bruegel's Dirty, Little Atoms / Amy Knight Powell
• 7. Leakage, Contagion, and Containment in Early Modern Venice / Lisa Pon
• 8. Contamination, Purification, Determinism: The Italian Pontine Marshes / Lauren Jacobi
• 9. Colonial Consecrations, Violent Reclamation, and Contested Spaces in the Spanish Americas / Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn
• 10. Contamination
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The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, the meteoric rise of new artistic and building technologies, and religious upheaval exert new pressures on art and its institutions, anxieties about the pure and the contaminated - distinctions between the clean and unclean, sameness and difference, self and other, organization and its absence - took on heightened importance. In this series of geographically and methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early modern actors negotiated these concerns, covering topics as diverse as Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures, Venetian plague hospitals, Spanish-Muslim tapestries, and emergency currency. The resulting volume offers surprising new insights into the period and into the modern disciplinary routines of art and architectural history.
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• Cover
• Titel
• Zum Buch
• Über den Autor
• Impressum
• Widmung
• Inhalt
• Einleitung
• Teil I: Die Nation vor dem Nationalismus
• 1. Deutschland zum ersten Mal sehen (1500)
• 2. Deutschland «gleich als eym Spiegel» (1500-1580)
• 3. Die Tränen der Stoiker (1580-1700)
• Teil II: Die kopernikanische Wende
• 4. Zerstückelung und Patriotismus (1700-1770)
• 5. Die Oberfläche und das Innere (1770-1790)
• 6. De l'Allemagne (1790-1815)
• Teil III: Das Zeitalter des Nationalismus
• 7. Die Entwicklung einer Nation (1815-1850)
• 8. Eine Nation nimmt Gestalt an (1850-1870)
• 9. Nation der Dinge (1870-1914)
• Teil IV: Das nationalistische Zeitalter
• 10. Sich für Deutschland opfern (1914-1933)
• 11. Andere für Deutschland opfern (1933-1941)
• 12. Todesräume (1941-1945)
• Teil V: Nach dem Nationalismus
• 13. Ein lebendiger Begriff des Vaterlands (1945-1950)
• 14. Die Präsenz des Mitgefühls (1950-2000)
• Epilog: Die Republik der Deutschen, jetzt und zu Anfang des 22. Jahrhunderts
• Danksagung
• Anmerkungen
• Nachweise für Bilder und Karten
• Personenregister
• Ortsregister

• Introduction
• Janet Berry Hess
• 1. Alive with Story: Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and Carrying Our Ancestors Home
• Sarah Montoya
• 2. Digitally Re-Presenting the Colonial Archive: Resources for Researching and Teaching the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and the Native American Boarding School Movement
• Frank Vitale IV, Susan Rose, and James Gerencser
• 3. Access to Truth, Healing, and Justice: Digitizing the Records of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools
• Christine Diindiisi McCleave, Rose Miron
• 4. The Indigenous Digital Archives: Access and Collaboration in the Southwest
• Anna Naruta-Moya
• 5.Myaamiaataweenki eekincikoonihkiinki eeyoonki aapisaataweenki: A Miami Language Digital Tool for Language Reclamation
• Daryl Baldwin, David J. Costa, Douglas Troy
• 6. A Cartographic History and Analyses of Indian-White Relations in the Great Plains
• Daniel G. Cole
• 7. Mapping with Indigenous Peoples in Canada
• D. R. Fraser Taylor
• 8. Early California Cultural Project: Visualizing Uncertainties within Indigenous History
• Steve Hackel, Jeanette Zerneke, Natale Zappia
• 9. Access to Government Information and Inclusive Stewardship of North America's Archaeological Heritage
• Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, David G. Anderson, Joshua J. Wells, Kelsey Noack Myers, Stephen Yerka
• 10. Finding Balance Between Development and Conservation: The O'ahu Greenprint
• The Trust for Public Land
• 11. Native Land: Social Media Education and Community Voices
• Victor Temprano
• 12. Mapping Indigenous American Cultures and Living Histories: A Gathering Place
• Janet Berry Hess
• 13. William Commanda, Wampum Oral Storytelling, Digital Technology and Remapping Indigenous Presence Across North American
• Romola V. Thumbadoo and D. R. Fraser Taylor
• 14. Mapping Names in Mohawk: Place Names and Visualizations of Indigenous Knowledge
• Rebekah R. Ingram
• Appendix.
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Employing anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous scholars, this text examines digital projects currently underway, and includes alternative modes of "mapping" Native American, Alaskan Native, Indigenous Hawaiian and First Nations land. The work of both established and emerging scholars addressing a range of geographic regions and cultural issues is also represented. Issues addressed include the history of maps made by Native Americans; healing and reconciliation projects related to boarding schools; language and land reclamation; Western cartographic maps created in collaboration with Indigenous nations; and digital resources that combine maps with narrative, art, and film, along with chapters on archaeology, place naming, and the digital presence of elders. This text is of interest to scholars working in history, cultural studies, anthropology, Native American studies, and digital cartography.
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• Introduction The Periodic Table
• Chapter 1. The Classical Elements
• Chapter 2. The Antique Metals
• Chapter 3. Alchemical Elements Interlude: What Exactly Is an Element?
• Chapter 4. The New Metals
• Chapter 5. Chemistry's Golden Age Interlude: John Dalton's Atoms
• Chapter 6. Electrical Discoveries Interlude: The Periodic Table
• Chapter 7. The Radiant Age
• Chapter 8. The Nuclear Age Sources for Quotes Further Reading Index Picture Credits.
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From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. The Elements is a stunning visual journey through the discovery of the chemical building blocks of our universe. By piecing together the history of the periodic table, Ball explores not only how we have come to understand what everything is made of, but also how chemistry developed into a modern science. Ball groups the elements into chronological eras of discovery, covering seven millennia from the first known to the last named. As he moves from prehistory and classical antiquity to the age of atomic bombs and particle accelerators, Ball highlights images and stories from around the world and sheds needed light on those who struggled for their ideas to gain inclusion. By also featuring some elements that aren't true elements but were long thought to be-from the foundational prote hyle and heavenly aetherof the ancient Greeks to more recent false elements like phlogiston and caloric-The Elements boldly tells the full history of the central science of chemistry.
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• List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 The History and Concept of Jesuit Mapmaking
• 1.1 The Organization of the Society of Jesus and Its Educational System
• 1.2 The Society of Jesus in the Age of Encounter and Exploration
• 1.3 Cartographers of Heaven and Earth
• 1.4 The Emergence and Development of Jesuit Cartography in the Americas
• 1.5 Techniques of Jesuit Mapmaking
• 1.6 Editorial Interventions into Jesuit maps: Originals and Their Edited Versions
• 1.7 The Iconography of Jesuit Maps
• 1.8 The Dissemination of Jesuit Maps and Their Impact on European Cartography
• 1.9 Changing the Discourse: Post-Suppression Jesuit Cartography 2 The Possessions of the Spanish Crown
• 2.1 The Viceroyalty of New Spain
• 2.1.1 The Jesuit Cartographic Endeavor in Florida
• 2.1.2 Mexico: Missionary Cartography of the Borderlands
• 2.1.2.1 Ivan Rattkay: Cartographic Pioneer of the Tarahumara Region
• 2.1.2.2 Adam Gilg and the Art of Surveying in the Province of Sonora
• 2.1.2.3 Eusebio Francisco Kino and His Followers: Mapping the Northwestern Frontier
• 2.1.2.4 Cartographic Synthesis from the Time of the Military and Juridical Reorganization of New Spain
• 2.1.2.5 Mapmaking Attempts in Sinaloa
• 2.1.2.6 The Jesuit Cartography of Nayarit
• 2.1.2.7 Juan Nentwig and Bernhard Middendorff: Cartographers of the Pima Uprising and Its Aftermath
• 2.1.3 Baja California: Revealing a Geographical Enigma
• 2.1.3.1 Eusebio Francisco Kino and the Appearance of the First Jesuit Maps of Baja California
• 2.1.3.2 Ferdinand Konscak (Fernando Consag): Confirming the Peninsularity
• 2.2 The Viceroyalty of Peru
• 2.2.1 The Province of Peru: Mapping the Moxos Missions
• 2.2.2 The Jesuit Cartography of Chile: Between Mythology and Utilitarianism
• 2.2.3 Patagonia: Jesuits at the Southern Edge of the Spanish Empire
• 2.2.4 The Province of Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata: The Cartography of Conflicts and Martyrs
• 2.2.4.1 Cartographic Reflections of the Treaty of Madrid
• 2.2.4.2 The Jesuit Cartography of the Guarani War and Its Aftermath
• 2.2.4.3 The Post-Suppression Jesuit Cartography of Paraguay
• 2.2.5 The Province of Quito: Challenging Border Disputes along the Amazon
• 2.2.5.1 The Post-Suppression Vision of Quito: From Territorialization to Idealism
• 2.2.6 New Granada: Defense and Commerce in the Orinoco River Region 3 Portuguese Possessions: Brazil
• 3.1 The Jesuit Mapping of Brazil: Cartography of the Edges of the Empire
• 3.1.1 Claiming the Amazon and Setting the Northern Brazilian Border with French Guiana
• 3.1.2 Mapping the Western Edge of the Empire: The Jesuit View of Minas Gerais
• 3.1.3 At the Southern Edge: The Jesuit Cartography of Colonia do Sacramento, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul
• 3.1.4 Back to the Northern Edge: The Amazon in the Aftermath of the Treaty of Madrid 4 New France: Searching for the Northwest Passage
• 4.1 The Early Jesuit Mapping of Huronia
• 4.2 Cartography under Iroquois Attacks: A New Discourse by Francesco Giuseppe Bressani
• 4.3 Mapping the Western Great Lakes (Huron, Michigan, and Superior)
• 4.4 Jacques Marquette and His Breakthrough to the Mississippi River
• 4.5 Pierre Raffeix and His Contribution to the Mapping of the Iroquois Country
• 4.6 The Final Decline of Jesuit Mapping in New France Concluding Remarks Notes Bibliography Index .
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In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits. The Society's goal was to revitalize the faith of Catholics and to evangelize to non-Catholics through charity, education, and missionary work. By the end of the century, Jesuit missionaries were sent all over the world, including to South America. In addition to performing missionary and humanitarian work, Jesuits also served as cartographers and explorers under the auspices of the Spanish, Portuguese, and French Crowns as they went into remote areas to find and evangelize to native populations. In Encounters in the New World, Mirela Altic analyzes more than one hundred fifty of their maps, most of which have never previously been published. She traces the Jesuit contribution to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World into the post-suppression period, placing it in the context of their worldwide undertakings in the fields of science and art. Altic's analysis also shows the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into the Jesuit maps, effectively making them an expression of cross-cultural communication-even as they were tools of colonial expansion. This ambiguity, she reveals, reflects the complex relationship between missions, knowledge, and empire. Far more than just a physical survey of unknown space, Jesuit mapping of the New World was in fact the most important link to enable an exchange of ideas and cultural concepts between the Old World and the New.
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• Chapter 1-Introduction: Toward a Transpasifika Performance Studies Chapter 2-Pelagic Performances: Pacific Voyagers on the Sea and Stage Chapter 3-(Dis)Appearing Islands: Climate Change and the Future Geographies of Oceanian Performance Chapter 4-Performing Transnational Samoa: Remittance, Resistance, Community Chapter 5-Destination Urbanesia: Cityscapes, Militarization, and Islander Identities Chapter 6-Epilogue: Pacific Futures.
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Moving Islands reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theater, performance art, art installations, dance, film, and activist performance in sites throughout Oceania and in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe. Diana Looser's study moves beyond a predictable country-specific or island-specific focus to encompass an entire region defined by diversity and global exchange, showing how performance operates to frame social, artistic, and political relationships across widely dispersed locations. The study also demonstrates how Oceanian performance contributes to international debates about diaspora, indigeneity, urbanization, and environmental sustainability. The author considers the region's unique cultural and geographic dynamics as she brings forth the paradigm of transpasifika to suggest a way of understanding these intercultural exchanges and connections, with the aim to "rework the cartographic and disciplinary priorities of transpacific studies to privilege the activities of Islander peoples.".
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