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• Forward by Bill Sherman
• Introduction by K Allado-Mcdowell and Ben Vickers
• Section 1: Models
• Section 2: Prediction
• Section 3: Mind
• Acknowledgements
• Biographies
• Image captions
• Credits

• 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 shows the history of charts and nautical maps from the earliest known examples to the one used in the Twentieth Century, with a special focus on the map makers and the methods of use from 1300 to 1900

• Introduction
• A mathematician's map of the Nile
• A world of Islam in circles and lines
• The mysterious Book of curiosities
• The grid of al-Sharīf al Idrīsī
• The expanding horizons of an Ottoman Admiral
• An astrolabe for a Shah, or finding the direction of Mecca in Safavid Isfahan
• Timeline

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and their maps stretched from Isfahan to Palermo, from Istanbul to Cairo and Aden. Over a similar period, Muslim artists developed distinctive styles, often based on geometrical patterns and calligraphy. Map-makers, including al-Khwarazmi and al-Idrisi, combined novel cartographical techniques with art, science and geographical knowledge. The results could be aesthetically stunning and mathematically sophisticated, politically charged as well as a celebration of human diversity. 'Islamic Maps' examines Islamic visual interpretations of the world in their historical context, through the lives of the map-makers themselves. What was the purpose of their maps, what choices did they make and what was the argument they were trying to convey? Lavishly illustrated with stunning manuscripts, beautiful instruments and Qibla charts, this book shows how maps constructed by Muslim map-makers capture the many dimensions of Islamic civilisation, providing a window into the worldviews of Islamic societies.
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• Introduction
• Distributing the lands of New Spain
• Painting the Colonial World
• Requesting the grant
• Opposing the grant
• Negotiating the grant
• Conclusion

Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used as evidence in litigation over the allocation of land. These land grant maps, or mapas de mercedes de tierras, recorded the boundaries of cities, provinces, towns, and places; they made note of markers and ownership, and, at times, the extent and measurement of each field in a territory, along with the names of those who worked it. With their corresponding case files, these maps tell the stories of hundreds of natives and Spaniards who engaged in legal proceedings either to request land, to oppose a petition, or to negotiate its terms. Mapping Indigenous Land explores how, as persuasive and rhetorical images, these maps did more than simply record the disputed territories for lawsuits. They also enabled indigenous communities - and sometimes Spanish petitioners - to translate their ideas about contested spaces into visual form; offered arguments for the defense of these spaces; and in some cases even helped protect indigenous land against harmful requests. Drawing on her own paleography and transcription of case files, author Ana Pulido Rull shows how much these maps can tell us about the artists who participated in the lawsuits and about indigenous views of the contested lands. Considering the mapas de mercedes de tierras as sites of cross-cultural communication between natives and Spaniards, Pulido Rull also offers an analysis of Medieval and Modern Castilian law, its application in colonial New Spain, and the possibilities it opened for the native population. An important contribution to the literature on Mexico's indigenous cartography and colonial art, Pulido Rull's work suggests new ways of understanding how colonial space itself was contested, negotiated, and defined.
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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!.
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• Introduction : artes apodemicae and early modern travel culture, 1550-1700 / Karl Enenkel and Jan de Jong
• Part 1. Manuals and theoretical reflections on the art of travelling
• Ars apodemica and socio-cultural research / Justin Stagl
• Loysius's Pervigilium mercurii and other early Latin artes apodemicae : the constitution of a genre through intertextuality / Karl Enenkel
• Lorenz Gryll (d. 1560) : a traveller in the service of medical training / Thomas Haye
• Justus lipsius on travelling to Italy : from a humanist letter-essay to an oration and a political guidebook / Jan Papy
• Debating the use of academic travel : early modern disputations De arte peregrinandi / Robert Seidel
• Handbooks for the courtier and handbooks for the traveller : intersections of two forms of early modern advice literature / Gabor Gelleri
• Through Canada with Linnaeus : the Swedish-Finnish traveller to America Pehr Kalm and his use of the Ars apodemica of Carl Linnaeus / Bernd Roling
• Part 2. Early modern traveller's guides
• Joint adventures : company and companions in seventeenth-century English travelling culture / Kerstin Maria Pahl
• The rise of a proto-tourist infrastructure in late sixteenth-century Rome and Naples / Harald Hendrix
• Reading instead of travelling : Nathan Chytraeus's Variorum in Europa itinerum deliciae / Jan L. de Jong
• Thomas Hobbes' journey poem De mirabilibus Pecci (1627) : a travel guide for early English domestic tourism / Johanna Luggin
• Part 3. The art of travelling to the Ottoman Empire
• Classical tradition and contemporary experience in Hugo Favolius's Hodoeporicon Byzantinum (1563) / Marc Laureys
• Habits and habillement in seventeenth-century voyages : Georges de La Chappelle's Recueil des divers portraits des principals dames de la Porte du Grand Turc / Justina Spencer

This volume explores the early modern manuals on travelling ('Artes apodemicae'), a new genre of advice literature that originated in the sixteenth century, when it became 'communis opinio' among intellectuals that travelling was an important means of acquiring knowledge and experience, and that an extended tour abroad was a vital, if not indispensable part of humanist, academic and political education. In this volume, the formation of this new genre, between 1550 and 1700, is studied in its historical, social and cultural context. Furthermore, the volume examines the impact of this new genre on the acquisition and collection of knowledge in the early modern period, empirical or otherwise

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural capital. From ancient glaciers to landmaking schemes and modern infrastructure projects, the city's terrain has been transformed almost constantly over the centuries. The Atlas of Boston History traces the city's history and geography from the last ice age to the present with beautifully rendered maps. Edited by historian Nancy S. Seasholes, this landmark volume captures all aspects of Boston's past in a series of fifty-seven stunning full-color plates. Each section features newly created thematic maps that focus on moments and topics in that history. These maps are accompanied by hundreds of historical and contemporary photographs and explanatory text from historians and other expert contributors. They illuminate a wide range of topics including Boston's physical and economic development, changing demography, and social and cultural life. In lavishly produced detail, The Atlas of Boston History offers a vivid, refreshing perspective on the development of this iconic American city.
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• Initiation period (1914- 1935): Geologists' artistic accomplishment reflected by hand-drawn maps.- Exploration period (1936- 1954): the first step towards standardization.- Growth period (1955-1994): maps displaying more information and printed in more standard way.- Leaping forward period (1995 to date): moving into digital mapping and digital cartography era.
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This open access book contains a collection of rare geologic maps and figures made by Chinese geologists in the last century. Preserved in National Geological Archives of China, these artworks demonstrate the development and innovation of geological mapping technology in China in the past 100 years. The collections are highly scientific and artistic, with most of the hand-drawn maps featured with traditional Chinese painting techniques, while the newer ones being more accurate and embedded with more scientific information with the aid of computer techniques.
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• 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

• Introduction
• Gridding Europe's navel : Conrad Celtis's Quatuor libri amorum secundum quatuor latera Germanie
• A border studies manifesto : Maciej Miechowita's Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis
• The alpha and the alif : continental ambivalence in Geoffroy Tory's Champ fleury
• Syphilitic borders and continents in flux : Girolamo Fracastoro's Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
• Cartographic curses: Europe and the Ptolemaic poetics of Os Lusíadas (1572)
• Conclusion

What is "Europe, " and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe's boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent's formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.
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• 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.
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• Contents
• Figures and Tables List of Archival Sources Notes on Contributors Introduction
• Emily A. Engel
• Part 1: Urban Development and Government
• 1 The Cultural Trajectory of the Central Peruvian Coast, The Territory and Its People in the Valleys of Pre-Hispanic Lima
• Giancarlo Marcone Flores
• 2 Before Lima: The Rimac-Lurin Area on the Eve of Spanish Conquest
• Peter Eeckhout
• 3 Taxation, Obligation, and Corporate Identity in 16th-Century Lima
• Karen B. Graubart
• 4 Making Urban Colonial Lima (1535-1650): Pipelines and Plazas
• Martha G. Bell and Gabriel Ramon
• 5 Lima: A Legal City in the Early Colonial Andes (1538-1600)
• Renzo Honores
• 6 Don Juan de Padilla y Pastrana (1596-1670), Advocate of Peru's Indigenous Population?
• Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
• Part 2: Society
• 7 Lima and the Introduction of Peru into the Global Trade of the 16th Century
• Margarita Suarez
• 8 Indigenous Populations in Early Lima: Origins, Possessions, and Networks
• Gabriela Ramos
• 9 Society and Education: The University of San Marcos in the 16th Century
• Pedro M. Guibovich Perez
• 10 Women Writers and Hispanic Hegemony in the 17th-Century Viceroyalty of Peru: The Cases of Clarinda and Amarilis
• Martina Vinatea Recoba
• 11 "Para el aumento del servicio de Dios [For the intensification of service to God]": Formalization of Piety and Charity in Lima's Confraternities during the 16th and 17th Centuries
• Diego Edgar Levano Medina
• 12 Unsettling and Unsettled Readings: Occult Scripts in 16th-Century Lima and the Challenges of Andean Knowledge
• Claudia Brosseder
• Part 3: Culture
• 13 "Reina, limpia y pura [Queen of Heaven, clean and pure]", Italian Painters and Marian Imagery in 16th-Century Lima
• Irma Barriga Calle
• 14 Fashioning Lima's Virgin of Copacabana: Indigenous Strategies of Negotiation in the Colonial Capital
• Ximena A. Gomez
• 15 Privileging the Local: Prints and the New World in Early Modern Lima
• Emily C. Floyd
• 16 British Piracy and the Origins of a Colonial Imaginary in 16th-Century Lima
• Maria Gracia Rios
• 17 The Book and Western Culture in 16th-Century Lima
• Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Sanchez
• 18 The Callao Contract of
• 1599: Actors Set the Stage for an Early Modern Lima
• Susan Finque
• 19 The Sonic Construction of a New Capital: Urban Soundscapes and Acoustic Communities in 16th-Century Lima
• Javier Marin-Lopez Conclusion
• Leo J. Garofalo
• Index.
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A Companion to Early Modern Lima introduces readers to the Spanish American city which became a vibrant urban center in the sixteenth-century world. As part of Brill's Companions to the Americas series, this volume presents current interdisciplinary research focused on the Peruvian viceregal capital. From ancient roots to its foundation by Pizarro, Lima was transformed into an imperial capital positioned between Atlantic and Pacific exchange networks. An international team of scholars examines issues ranging from literary history, politics, and religion to philosophy, historiography, and modes of intercontinental influence. The volume is divided into three sections: urban development and government, society, and culture. The essays collectively represent the scope of contemporary approaches, methodologies, and source materials pertinent to the study of sixteenth-century Lima, a city at the center of global interchange in the early modern world.
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• 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

Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profitable board game industry thrived in Britain from the 1750s onward, thanks to publishers like John Wallis, John Betts, and William Spooner. As part of the new wave of materials catering to the developing mass market of child consumers, the games steadily acquainted future upper- and middle-class empire builders (even the royal family themselves) with the strategies of imperial rule: cultivating, trading, engaging in conflict, displaying, and competing. In their parlors, these players learned the techniques of successful colonial management by playing games such as Spooner's A Voyage of Discovery, or Betts' A Tour of the British Colonies and Foreign Possessions. These games shaped ideologies about nation, race, and imperial duty, challenging the portrait of Britons as "absent-minded imperialists." Considered on a continuum with children's geography primers and adventure tales, these games offer a new way to historicize the Victorians, Britain, and Empire itself. The archival research conducted here illustrates the changing disciplinary landscape of children's literature/culture studies, as well as nineteenth-century imperial studies, by situating the games at the intersection of material and literary culture.
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