• 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.
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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) 9783319768397 20190218

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) 9781426219726 20181112

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) 9780300214673 20180717

• Introduction
• SECTION 1: AIRBORNE Diphtheria Influenza Leprosy Measles Scarlet Fever SARS Smallpox Tuberculosis (TB)
• SECTION 2: WATERBORNE Cholera Dysentery Typhoid
• SECTION 3: INSECTS AND ANIMALS Malaria Plague Typhus Yellow Fever Zika
• SECTION 4: HUMAN TO HUMAN Polio Ebola HIV and AIDS Syphilis Index Credits.
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The Atlas of Disease gives a unique perspective on how epidemics have spread throughout history, from the fourteenth-century plague that devastated Europe and the lethal outbreaks of cholera in the nineteenth century, right up to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the catastrophic spread of zika in Brazil. Interweaving new maps based on the latest available data with historical charts alongside intriguing, often unsettling, contemporary illustrations, this extraordinary book plots the course of some of the most virulent and deadly pandemics around the world. Discover how diseases have changed the course of history, stimulated advances in medicine and how mapping has played a key role in prevention and cure, shaping countless lives.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781781317907 20190114

• Lineamenti di cartografia tra Medioevo e Rinascimento dalle mappe manoscritte a quelle a stampa / Clemente Marigliani
• Specificità, fortuna e auctoritas del canone tolemaico / Fabio Fatichenti, Gaia Andreozzi
• Citta e Fortezze Principali del Mondo : le prime raccolte italiane di cartografia urbana e gli isolari del XVI secolo / Stefano Bifolco
• Metodi e strumenti del rilevamento urbano e territoriale nel Rinascimento / Andrea Cantile
• I più grandi planisferi in proiezione polare della prima età moderna (XVI-XVII secolo) / Annalisa d'Ascenzo
• Copyright nel Rinascimento : il privilegio / Alessandra Signoretti.

• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Creating Republican Paris
• 1 Working with Maps
• 2 Creating Map Readers: The Rise of Geography and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century France
• 3 The Triumphant Republic: `Paris en 1889, [Les] Operations de Voirie executees entre 1871 et 1889'
• 4 A New Way of Seeing Paris: The Service Geographique's Carte de France
• 5 The Beginning of French Urbanism: Leon Jausseuly's 1919 Plan d'extension
• 6 The Rise of Suburban Paris: Henri Prost's Carte generale
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index

Through official maps, this book looks at how government presentations of Paris and environs change over the course of the Third Republic (1889-1934). Governmental policies, such as the creation of a mandatory national uniform educational system that will eventually include geography, combined with technological advances in the printing industry, to alter the look, exposure, reception, and distribution of government maps. The government initially seemed to privilege an exclusively positive view of the capital city and limited its presentation of it to land inside the walled fortifications. However, as the Republic progressed and Paris grew, technology altered how Parisians used and understood their urban space. Rail and automobiles made moving about the city and environs easier while increased industrialization moved factories and their workers further out into the Seine Department. During this time, maps transitioned from reflecting the past to documenting the present. With the advent of French urbanism after World War I, official mapped views of greater Paris abandoned privileging past achievements and began to mirror actual residential and industrial development as it pushed further out from the city centre. Finally, the government needed to plan for the future of greater Paris and official maps begin to show how the government viewed the direction of its capital city.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781786940964 20180709

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Uncovering the Sicilian past in the Creole city
• Chapter 1 Sicily lemons and sugarcane: The backstory of the Italian New Orleans
• Chapter 2 A road paved with oyster shells: Sicilians and the origins of the restaurant culture in New Orleans, 1830-1900
• Chapter 3 Blood and macaroni: Becoming American in the Sicilian French Quarter
• Chapter 4 Booze, red gravy, and jazz: The birth of the new Orleans Italian restaurant
• Chapter 5 “Italian heaven”: Life in the Sicilian French Quarter before World War
• 11
• Chapter 6 Making groceries: The Bloodline of Sicilian New Orleans
• Chapter 7 Meatballs, mafia, and memory: The New Orleans Italian restaurant in myth and reality since
• 1945
• Notes
• Selected bibliography
• Index

In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s. Each chapter touches on events that involved Sicilian immigrants and the relevancy of their lives and impact on New Orleans. Sicilian immigrants cut sugarcane, sold groceries, ran truck farms, operated bars and restaurants, and manufactured pasta. Citing these cultural confluences, Nystrom posits that the significance of Sicilian influence on New Orleans foodways traditionally has been undervalued and instead should be included, along with African, French, and Spanish cuisine, in the broad definition of “creole.” Creole Italian chronicles how the business of food, broadly conceived, dictated the reasoning, means, and outcomes for a large portion of the nearly forty thousand Sicilian immigrants who entered America through the port of New Orleans in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and how their actions and those of their descendants helped shape the food town we know today. 9780820353555

Globes: Visions of the World uses remarkable works of cartography, art, science and technology to tell the fascinating story of how humanity has understood our planet and the cosmos across two and a half millennia. This work, in English, French and Arabic, has been published to accompany the second temporary exhibition at the new Louvre Abu Dhabi. It seeks to recreate the links between this long search for knowledge and today’s science and comprehension by paying tribute to the visionary scholars whose goal was to model – in spheres, circles and ellipses – our fascinating cosmos.

'Stunning...divine' Stephen Fry `A fabulous book, good enough to eat with a spoon! Marvellous' John Lloyd, creator of QI 'Introduces us to a whole different way of looking at maps. Great illustrations, most engaging - the author is just a mine of information' Simon Mayo's Books of the Year The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discovery, illustrated with a selection of the most beautiful maps ever created. The book reveals how the world came to be known, featuring a magnificent gallery of exceptionally rare hand-coloured antique maps, paintings and engravings, many of which can only be found in the author's collection. Arranged chronologically, the reader is taken on a breathtaking expedition through Ancient Babylonian geography and Marco Polo's journey to the Mongol Khan on to buccaneers ransacking the Caribbean and the voyages of seafarers such as Captain Cook and fearless African pathfinders. Their stories are told in an engaging and compelling style, bringing vividly to life a motley collection of heroic explorers, treasure-hunters and death-dealing villains - all of them accompanied by eye-grabbing illustrations from rare maps, charts and manuscripts. The Golden Atlas takes you back to a world of darkness and peril, placing you on storm-lashed ships, frozen wastelands and the shores of hostile territories to see how the lines were drawn to form the shape of the modern world. The author's previous book, The Phantom Atlas, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller, described by Jonathan Ross as 'a spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read' and this new book is sure to follow suit. `Perfect for the armchair adventurer historian, this is a rich visual exploration of some of the most beautiful charts ever created' National Geographic.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781471166822 20181217

Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past. In this book Susan Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age. With stunning visual clarity, A History of America in 100 Maps showcases the power of cartography to illuminate and complicate our understanding of the past. Gathered primarily from the British Library's incomparable archives and compiled into nine chronological chapters, these one hundred full-color maps range from the iconic to the unfamiliar. Each is discussed in terms of its specific features as well as its larger historical significance in a way that conveys a fresh perspective on the past. Some of these maps were made by established cartographers, while others were made by unknown individuals such as Cherokee tribal leaders, soldiers on the front, and the first generation of girls to be formally educated. Some were tools of statecraft and diplomacy, and others were instruments of social reform or even advertising and entertainment. But when considered together, they demonstrate the many ways that maps both reflect and influence historical change. Audacious in scope and charming in execution, this collection of one hundred full-color maps offers an imaginative and visually engaging tour of American history that will show readers a new way of navigating their own worlds.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780226458618 20181022

• Forward / Luciano Lazzari
• Preface / Andrew Peckham
• Short cuts / William Firebrace
• 2008/2009...
• 2009/2010...
• 2010/2011...
• 2011/2012...
• 2012/2013...
• 2013/2014...
• 2015/2016...
• 2016/2017...
• Archive
• Bibliography
• Quotes
• Catalogue
• Afterwards
• Acknowledgments

• Chapters: [1] Introduction
• [2] Kashmir - East Karakoram
• [3] Karakoram
• [4] Himachal Pradesh
• [5] Uttarakhand
• [6] Nepal - Tibet
• [7] Sikkim - Arunachal Pradesh - Bhutan
• [8] Index

The last 90 years have been a glorious period in Himalayan exploration. As explorers from across the globe have attempted to discover the Himalaya, the Himalayan Club has played a pioneering role in chronicling their expeditions for posterity. The accompanying maps, from the Himalayan Journal, are a historical treasure capturing various facets of exploration over time. Legendary explorations like Shipton and Tilman's route into Nanda Devi Sanctuary, Maurice Herzog's Annapurna ascent - the first to scale an 8,000m peak - and Sir Chris Bonington's exploring routes to Menluntse continue to arouse fascination to this day. The last decade or two have witnessed fascinating explorations - trails to complete the century-old quest to trace the route of the mighty Brahmaputra river by Harish Kapadia, exploring the unknown Kunzang valley by Group Capt. V.K. Sashindran, ascents and accident on Panch Chuli by A.V. Saunders and an ascent of Nilkanth by the west ridge by Martin Moran and many others. With some of the routes and climbs documented here yet to be repeated, this book is a tribute to the rich history of exploration and a treasure trove for aficionados.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9788193626023 20180604

• Foreward
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Years of change and development (1768-1793)
• Chapter 2. The impact of revolution (1793-1800)
• Chapter 3. Esteemed pastor adn coadjutor Archbishop (1800-1812)
• Chapter 4. Educational concerns and initiatives
• Chapter 5. A decisive decade (1813-1823): Part I. Moving towards emancipation; Part II. Emerging divisions
• Chapter 6. Early years as Archbishop of Dublin (1823-1826)
• Chapter 7. The years to Catholic emancipation (1827-1830)
• Chapter 8. The arrival of national education (1830-1832)
• Chapter 9. Illness, hospitality, pastoral care and defense of the faith (1832-1840)
• Chapter 10. Rejection by the RDS (1835) and conflict over national education (1838-1841)
• Chapter 11. Repeal and bequests act (1842-1845)
• Chapter 12. Years of famine and turmoil (1846-1850)
• Chapter 13. University education for Catholics (1845-1852)
• Chapter 14. The final years (1851-1852)

Daniel Murray was undoubtedly the outstanding Irish Catholic archbishop of the nineteenth century. He was a man of elegance and charm, ready to listen to others and to find good in them. To the redoubtable Bishop Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin, the archbishop was `an angel of a man'.His concern for the education of the poor led to the founding of the Irish Sisters of Charity and the invitation to Dublin of the Sisters of Mercy and the Irish Christian Brothers. His interest in the education of the middle class was manifested in the foundation of the Sisters of Loreto and in his support for the schools of the Jesuits and the Vincentians. A man of great pastoral energy, he built numerous churches and readily encouraged lay involvement in the work of the diocese. He was actively involved in assisting the Holy See in the appointment of priests and bishops around the world and his efforts to provide aid to the needy during the Great Famine, and the veneration and respect he inspired in his clergy, further contributed to the high esteem in which he was held. And yet, he is a virtually forgotten figure in Irish history.This neglect is related to the stance he took on some issues of the day - his support for certain government initiatives, his opposition to his clergy's involvement in politics, and his caution about openly supporting Repeal.