A Check List of Maine Local Histories

A Check List of Maine Local Histories. Compiled by Almer J. Houston. Listing of Town Histories, Regimental Histories, County Histories, County Atlases, State Histories, State Atlases, Historical Societies, Collections of Historical and Genealogical Magazines, Ecclesiastical Histories and Statutes and Session Laws. A.J. Huston, 92 Exchange Street, Portland, Me., 1915.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/me_collection/1009/thumbnail.jp

SELECTED POSSIBILITIES OF DATA EXCERPTION FROM THE DATABASE OF HISTORICAL ATLASES

A large database of more than 400 existing historical atlases released after 1950 was createdas a result of an extensive analytic research within the preparation of cartographic works on theCzech Historical Atlas. The database was published in the form of a web application that allows theuser to reveal and analyse associated information about historical atlases across interactivedashboards. To improve the information value of the database, the authors decided to arrangefurther possibilities of data excerption with the use of specialized data visualization methods thatmay reveal additional information and new phenomena which are not clearly visible from thedatabase itself. The performed analyses supplement the paper in the form of diagrams and chartsand present the data from various perspectives with the focus on similarities and differences betweenthe cartographic and the thematic content of the historical atlases in the publishing countries, thechanges in the thematic focus of the atlases or changes in the use of methods of thematiccartography in atlas works over time. The authors also deal with relations between the thematicfocus of the atlas and the applied methods of thematic cartography. All analyses are performed onthe sample of 88 atlas works

Us and them : the representation of minority groups in the Statistical Atlases of the United States from 1874 to 1925

The dissertation offers a critical reading of the visual representation of minority groups in the Statistical Atlases of the United States from 1874 to 1925. Beginning in 1874, six consecutive Statistical Atlases, collections of displays of census data, were published to characterize Americans and their lands. Using a variety of data displays, these atlases envisioned the emerging nation with a diversity of races and ethnicities at the high time of immigration and westward expansion. The visual constructs of the nation\u27s population groups in the Atlases projected a particular reading of these groups in the nation at a particular historical moment. As a powerful public act of visual rhetoric, the Atlases worked to shape Americans\u27 racial and ethnic identity and contributed to the forging of a national identity as a whole. Although the graphic features and statistical innovations of the Statistical Atlases have long been acknowledged, the rhetorical effects and ideological implications of the Atlases have not received sufficient critical attention. This dissertation extends the existing scholarship on the Atlases by conducting a rhetorical analysis on the representation of minority groups in the Atlases including foreign immigrants in general, Chinese immigrants in specific, and Native Americans. My intention of the study is to shed light on the fabrications of politics and ideologies that play out behind the visual language of data displays. In the dissertation, I argue that the Statistical Atlases performed a surveillance and disciplinary function on the population in the nation that can be termed the other and helped creating a public discourse that supported the state\u27s policy of immigration and westward expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The construction of the minority groups not only reflected and but also reshaped the historical context

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Lecture III: There are maps and there are maps – motives, markets and users

This is the third of three lectures given on 5,6 and 8 March 2007 as the Sandars lectures for that year at Cambridge University Library. The text is as read at the time, but includes some later revisions and citations to works used within the text. The slides shown are listed in a separate document.Cambridge University Library, Sandars Readership in Bibliograph

The Use of Colors in Historical Atlases

The use of colour in cartography has received a great deal of attention for its capability to convey information in map-making ever since Jacques Bertin\u2019s famous Se\ub4miologie Graphique (published 1967). Since most studies on the use of colour in cartography clearly highlight the communicative power of colour in cartography, it is interesting and surprising that the use of colour to convey messages beyond the declared one is not taken into consideration into these works. The possible attempt of cartographers to imply nationalistic propaganda by their use of colour and its analysis is left to books on cartographic propaganda, to studies on historical atlases, or to articles on thematic maps. To merge these two topics, an analysis of South Tyrolean-themed maps taken from the most important German and Italian historical atlases based on psychological, symbolic, and optical theories is given. The analysed atlases were been published between the end of the processes of national unification and the aftermath of the Second World War, the period in which the South Tyrol was most disputed between German and Italian nationalists

The SyMoGIH project and Geo-Larhra: A method and a collaborative platform for a digital historical atlas

International audienceThe aim of this paper is to highlight the need for digital atlases in historical research and to present the data model and the collaborative platform we have developed in order to produce a historical geographic information system (HGIS), the Geo-Larhra, which is suitable for producing a new digital historical atlas

The civic survey of Greater London: social mapping, planners and urban space in the early twentieth century

This paper examines work conducted between 1915 and 1919 by a group of architects and planners based at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The project, called the Civic Survey of Greater London, and the substantial collection of maps and diagrams that resulted from it are currently unknown in histories of mapping and planning, thus this paper offers a preliminary account and analysis of the work. The paper begins by assessing the development of surveying and mapping techniques in the nineteenth century with the aim of situating the Survey within broader historical trajectories. The following section of the paper examines the immediate context for the Survey, in particular the place of Patrick Geddes and his ideas. The third part of the paper focuses on the work of the Survey itself. The fourth part draws out key analytical threads in dialogue with a number of the maps of the Survey. The emphasis placed here is on exploring lines of continuity between the Civic Survey of Greater London and earlier techniques of representation and governmentality. The concluding section reflects briefly on the reasons for the Survey's subsequent relative obscurity and the importance of the project for later traditions of surveying