Images of the World : The Atlas Through History

Name: Images of the World : The Atlas Through History
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ISBN: 9780070715783

ISBN-10: 0070715785

ISBN-13: 9780070715783

Edition: 1996

Authors: John A. Wolter, Ronald E. Grim

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Initially subsidised and collected by the nobility and wealthy merchant princes, atlases are so relatively inexpensive and commonly used today that their importance and the fascinating history of their development are often overlooked.

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 466
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.444
Language: English

Illustration Credits
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Sixteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript Atlases for Special Presentation	p. 3
An Inquiry into Early Chinese Atlases through the Ming Dynasty	p. 31
Italian Composite Atlases of the Sixteenth Century	p. 51
Atlas Cartography in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries	p. 73
French School Atlases: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries	p. 109
Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer's Nautical Atlases and Pilot Books	p. 135
Power and Legitimation in the English Geographical Atlases of the Eighteenth Century	p. 161
German Atlas Development during the Nineteenth Century	p. 207
Austrian Atlases of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	p. 233
Late Eighteenth-and Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Atlases	p. 257
Early American Atlases and their Publishers	p. 301
The All-American County Atlas: Styles of Commercial Landownership Mapping and American Culture	p. 331
The Rise of the National Atlas	p. 369
Twentienth-Century Children's Atlases: Social Force or Educational Farce?	p. 401
The Natural History of the Atlas: Evolution and Extinction	p. 419
Contributors	p. 435
Bibliography	p. 443
Index	p. 449
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