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Cartographia / Vincent Virga and the Library of Congress ; introduction by Ronald E. Grim ; afterword by James H. Billington

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007Edition: First editionDescription: 266 pages : color illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 34 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316997669
  • 0316997668
Other title:
  • Cartographia: mapping civilizations [Other title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 912 .V816 2007
Contents:
Introduction : Theater of the world -- Prologue -- [pt. 1]. Mediterranean world -- Babylonians -- Egyptians -- Greeks -- Etruscans -- Romans -- Islamic world -- Holy Land -- Mediterranean Sea -- [pt. 2]. The three-part world -- Asia -- Africa -- Europe -- [pt. 3]. The fourth part : The Americas -- Latin America -- Anglo America -- [pt. 4]. The fifth part : Oceania and Antarctica -- Oceania -- Antarctica -- Epilogue : The unseen cultural world -- Afterword
Summary: Among the maps included in the book are the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507, the first to include the designation "America"; pages from the Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570, considered the first modern atlas; rare maps from Africa, Asia, and Oceania that challenge traditional Western perspectives; William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 map of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi; and a map of the Human Genome.--From publisher's description
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Includes cartobibliography (pages 255-258) and index

Introduction : Theater of the world -- Prologue -- [pt. 1]. Mediterranean world -- Babylonians -- Egyptians -- Greeks -- Etruscans -- Romans -- Islamic world -- Holy Land -- Mediterranean Sea -- [pt. 2]. The three-part world -- Asia -- Africa -- Europe -- [pt. 3]. The fourth part : The Americas -- Latin America -- Anglo America -- [pt. 4]. The fifth part : Oceania and Antarctica -- Oceania -- Antarctica -- Epilogue : The unseen cultural world -- Afterword

Among the maps included in the book are the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507, the first to include the designation "America"; pages from the Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570, considered the first modern atlas; rare maps from Africa, Asia, and Oceania that challenge traditional Western perspectives; William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 map of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi; and a map of the Human Genome.--From publisher's description

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