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Pages: 349
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-29 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, a
Maps
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Pages: 424
Authors: James R. Akerman
Categories: History
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Introducing readers to a wide range of maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures, this book confirms the vital roles of maps throughout history
Time in Maps
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Authors: Kären Wigen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-20 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digita
Theater of the World
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Authors: Thomas Reinertsen Berg
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A beautifully illustrated full-color history of mapmaking across centuries -- a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers. Theater of the World offers
A History of the World in 12 Maps
Language: en
Pages: 547
Authors: Jerry Brotton
Categories: History
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A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the wa