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Connecticut : mapping the Nutmeg State through history
Connecticut: mapping the Nutmeg State through history provides a fascinating journey into the state's past through more than fifty full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress.
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El rostro de la historia
Lo mismo puede decirse de los mapas. Las palabras hacen que las imágenes generales sean específicas; la ausencia de palabras frecuentemente lleva a especulaciones interesantes. El historiador cultural Fernand Braudel observa que una parte esencial del carácter de la civilización depende de \"las limitaciones o ventajas\" de su situación geográfica. Coincide con la máxima de Napoleón de que la geografía explica la historia debido a la interacción de historia y geografía. Sin embargo, de modo interesante, las oportunidades ofrecidas por la geografía no siempre son aprovechadas, un hecho que nos ayuda a comprender las dinámicas sociales de grupos específicos. El tema de los mapas consta de cuatro partes: gente, sociedad, cultura e historia. Cada mapa es un conjunto de pistas visuales que revelan por qué fue creado y cómo fue utilizado. Cada mapa expresa un interés social y político, de los cuales hay muchos. De ahí que los mapas sean actos de discernimiento. Debido a que organizan visualmente el conocimiento, los mapas están arraigados en nuestra cultura visual. Tal como explica el historiador cartográfico Christian Jacob: \"Comparten una serie de códigos -geométricos, cromáticos, figurativos y estéticos- con la pintura y el dibujo, la ilustración de libros, la caligrafía y la arquitectura\".
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The Library of Congress: Eyes of the Nation
The Library of Congress: Eyes of the Nation CD-ROM from Southpeak Interactive is reviewed for children.
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS; IT'S GETTING LATE: WHERE IS YOUR SUMMER READING LIST?
Then I looked down at my own books, and felt a momentary wave of mortification. Five books. Not 18, not 15, not even ten. If these 12-year-olds looked back at me they would most likely curl their lips in disdain. ''Oh, that's what happens,'' they would think. ''You stop wanting to read. You become a little dumber, a little slower.'' For certainly I must have looked that way, fully grown and standing with only five books, when there were so many more I might have chosen from this huge building that housed nothing but books. At 12 these youngsters were testing their limits, flexing muscles they didn't know they had. They were moving very, very fast, learning to feel at home among words. Only later in their lives would they start to slow down and understand the importance of pausing over a significant phrase or idea. Only later would they discover that the quality of a summer spent with books depends, finally, on the particular books one has selected. It's more than the fact that there are rewards involved, that at the end of the summer a huge party will be thrown in our honor. A magician performs, doves fly from his silk hat and we clap as we're supposed to, but none of us is focusing on his magic. Instead we're glancing down at the Summer Reading Club newsletter we've been handed, a stapled-together leaflet that lists each club member by name and the titles of the books he or she has read. The book lists are long and single-spaced; most of us have read a disturbingly large number of books. We compare prowess, but we also take note of titles, with fondness or dislike or intrigue: ''From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,'' ''It's Like This, Cat,'' ''My Darling, My Hamburger.'' We are sitting in the darkness with the magician onstage but all of us are distracted. We're lost in plots, characters, populated worlds that we've plowed through during the hottest days of summer. We all know that there is something magical about the number of books we've read, something nearly miraculous about the sudden voracity that's been implanted in each of us. But it hasn't been implanted there merely by idleness or the promise of reward. The reason is bigger than that, and all of us know it, but since we're only 12 years old we can't yet name it.
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The New Nature of Maps. Essays in the History of Cartography. By John Brian Harley, edited by Paul Laxton, introduction by J. H. Andrews. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8018-65662. Pp. xv, 331, illus. STG $45.00/UK £30.50 (cloth).
Plantejaments i objectius d'una historia universal de la cartografia/Approaches and Challenges in a Worldwide History of Cartography. By David Woodward, Catherine Delano-Smith, and Cordell D. K. Yee. Cicle de conferències sobre Història de la Cartografía, 11è curs. Barcelona: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, 2001. ISBN 84-393-5433-9. Pp. 353, illus. Euros 15.02 (paper). [L'Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Parc de Montjuïc, 08038, Barcelona.]
Reality as Representation: The Semiotics of Cartography and the Generation of Meaning. By Emanuela Casti, translated by Jeremy Scott. Bergamo: Bergamo University Press, 2000. ISBN 88-87445-05-2. Pp. 216, illus. Euros 14.98 (paper).
Seeing through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View. By Ward L. Kaiser and Denis Wood. Amherst, MA: ODT, Inc, 2001. ISBN 1-931057-00-1. Pp. 152, illus. US $19.95 (paper). [ODT, Inc. P.O. Box 134, Amherst, MA, USA 01004.]
The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observation: Mapping Art and Science. By Susan Bender and Ian Berry, with Bernard Possidente and Richard Wilkinson. Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2001. ISBN 0-9708790-1-6. Pp. 96, illus [Available through Distributed Art Publishers, 155 Sixth Avenue, 2nd floor, NY, NY 10013.]
Voir la terre. Six essais sur le paysage et la géographie. By Jean-Marc Besse. Arles: Artes Sud / ENSP / Centre du Paysage, 2000. ISBN 2-7427-2828-7. Pp. 162, illus. Euros 18.14 (paper).
Segni e sogni della terra: il disegno del mondo dal mito di Atlante alla geografía delle reti. [Signs and Dreams of the Earth: Representing the World from the Myth of Atlas to the Geography of Networks.] Novara: Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 2001. ISBN 88-415-9901-4. Pp. 286, illus. Euros 25.82 (paper), .
The Hereford Map: A Transcription and Translation of the legends with Commentary. By Scott D. Westrem. Terrarum Orbis: History of the Representation of Space in Text and Image 1, edited by Patrick Gamier Dalché. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001. ISBN 2-503-51056-6. Pp. lxvii, 476, illus. Euros 55.00 (cloth). [Brepols Publishers NV, Begijnhof 67, B-2300 Turnhout, Belgium. Internet: .]
Münchner Portolankarten: 'Kunstmann I-XIII' und zehn weitere Portolankarten/ Munich Portolan Charts: 'Kunstmann I-XIII' and Ten Further Portolan Charts. By Ivan Kupčík. Munich and Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2000. ISBN 3-422-06156-8. Pp. 176, illus. DM 298,00 (cloth). [Deutscher Kunstverlag, Nymphenburger Strasse 84, D-80636 München, Germany.]
Giovanni Caboto e le vie dell 'Atlantico Settentrionale: Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Roma, 29 settembre-1 ottobre 1997. Edited by Marcella Arca Petrucci and Simonetta Conti. Genoa: Brigati, 1999. Pp. xi, 579, illus. (paper).
The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950. By Susan Schulten. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN 0-226-74055-2. Pp. x, 319, illus. US $40.00 / STG £25.00 (cloth).
This Land Is Your Land: The Geographic Evolution of the United States. By Seymour I. Schwartz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. ISBN 0-8109-6715-4. Pp. 304, illus. US $75.00.
Representing the Republic: Mapping the United States, 1600-1900. By John Rennie Short. London: Reaktion Books, 2001. ISBN 1-86189-086-9. Pp. 256, illus. STG £25.00 / US $35.00 (cloth). [Reaktion Books, 79 Farrington Road, London EC1M 3JU.]
New England in Early Printed Maps, 1513-1800: An Illustrated Carto-Bibliography. Compiled by Barbara Backus McCorkle. Providence, R.I.: The John Carter Brown Library, 2001. ISBN 0-916617-53-X. Pp. xx, 354, illus. US $185 (cloth). [John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Providence, R.I. 02912.]
La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857. By Paula Rebert. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. ISBN 0-292-77110-X. Pp. xx, 259, illus. US $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-292-77111-8. US $22.95 (paper).
Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838. By Brian Leigh Dunnigan. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8143-2767-2. Pp. viii, 248, illus. US $125 (cloth). [Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan, USA 48201-1309.]
L'Atelier Delisk: l'Amérique du Nord sur la table à dessin. [The Delisle Workshop: North America on the Drafting Table.] By Nelson-Martin Dawson with collaboration of Charles Vincent. Sillery, Quebec: les Editions du Septentrion, 2000. ISBN 2-894-48173-X. Pp. 308, illus. CAN $34.95 (cloth). [1300 av. Maguire, Sillery Québec BIT 1Z3. Internet: .]
Sir Francis Drake's Secret Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, AD 1579. By Samuel Bawlf. Salt Spring Island, BC: Sir Francis Drake Publications, 2001. ISBN 0-9688528-0-7. Pp. x, 149, illus. US $50.00 (cloth). [Sir Francis Drake Publications Ltd., P.O. Box 236, Salt Spring Island, BC Canada V8K 2V9.]
Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793. By Richard Kagan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-300-08314-9. Pp. x, 235, illus. US $55.00 (cloth).
The Nation Survey'd: Timothy Pont's Maps of Scotland. Edited by Ian C. Cunningham. East Lothian, Scotland: Tuckwell Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, 2001. ISBN 1-86232-198-1. Pp. xviii, 172, illus. STG £20.00/US $31.95/CAN $47.95 (paper).
Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland. By Bernhard Klein. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. ISBN 0-333-7793-9. Pp. xii, 235, illus. STG £45.00 (cloth).
The Map Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century: Letters to the London Map Sellers Jefferys & Faden. Edited by Mary Pedley. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, SVEC 2000:06. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000. ISBN 0-7294-0712-8, ISSN 0435-2866. Pp. xiv, 197, illus. STG £45 (paper). [Plymbridge Distributors Ltd., Estover Road, Plymouth, PL6 7PY, UK.]
Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille. By Daniel Lord Smail. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8014-3626-5. Pp. 236, illus. US $37.50 (cloth).
Idrísí aus Sizilien. Der Einfluß eines arabischen Wissenschaftlers auf die Entwicklung der europäischen Geographie. [Idrisi of Sicily: The Influence of an Arab Scholar on the Development of European Geography.] By Carsten Drecoll. Deutsche Hochschulschriften 1187. Egelsbach, Frankfurt on Main, Munich, New York: Dr. Hänsel-Hohenhausen, 2000. ISBN 3- 8267-1187-4. Pp. 177, illus. Euros 36,00 (paper). [Verlag der Deutschen Hochschulschriften, Boschring 21-23, D-63329 Egelsbach bei Frankfurt am Main, Germany.]
Holy Land in Maps. Edited by Ariel Tishby. Jerusalem and New York: The Israel Museum and Rizzoli International, 2001. ISBN 965-278-269-6. Pp. 168, illus. US$ 55.00 (cloth).
Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China. By Laura Hostetler. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN 0-226-35420-2. Pp. xx, 257, illus. US $35.00 / STG £22.50 (cloth).
The Search for the Inland Sea: John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828. By Richard Johnson. Carlton South, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-522-84959-8. Pp. 320, illus. AUS $49.95 (cloth).
Mapping and Naming the Moon: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature. By Ewen A. Whitaker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-62248-4. Pp xix, 242, illus. STG £37.50 (cloth).
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology. By Simon Winchester. New York: Harper Collins, 2001. ISBN 0-06-019361-1. Pp. xix, 329, illus, maps. US $26.00 (cloth).
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