Cartographies of Time A History of the Timeline

Name: Cartographies of Time A History of the Timeline
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ISBN: 9781568987637

ISBN-10: 1568987633

ISBN-13: 9781568987637

Edition: 2009

Authors: Anthony Grafton, Daniel Rosenberg, Princeton Architectural Press Staff

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What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. They shed light on western views of history and on the complex relationship between general ideas about the course of events and the technical efforts to record and connect dates and names in the past. In addition to telling a rich, forgotten story, this book serves as a kind of grammar of historical representation, uncovering the ways in which time has been structured in thought and in images, in the Western tradition. Written for both the academically curious and the general reader, Cartographies of Time provides a set of tools for…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 3/3/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 9.00" wide x 10.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English