11 research outputs found
Review of \u3ci\u3e Editing Early and Historical Atlases\u3c/i\u3e edited by Joan Winearls
Researchers have only slowly recognized the possibilities and pitfalls of using maps as cultural artifacts. Only recently have historians of cartography shown that embedded in every map is valuable information about the cartographer and the society that produced it. Still, there is almost no literature on how editol\u27s have influenced the shape of early and historical atlases. Editing Early and Historical Atlases is intended to scrutinize this lacuna. In their approach, however, most of its articles use the lenses of traditional historiography. The four articles in the first section-by James Akerman, Walter Goffart, Mary Pedley, and Anne Godlewska-provide a historiography of early and historical atlases from the emergence of the atlas idea in the late sixteenth century to the mid nineteenth century, by which time conventions in editing historical atlases now taken for granted were established. These articles trace the various remarkable men and milestone collections that transformed books of(or with) maps to books as maps. In this regard the essays are highly successful
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Towards Aboriginal Self-Government: Relations between Status Indian Peoples and the Government of Canada 1969-1984. By Anne-Marie Mawhiney.
Towards Aboriginal Self-Government: Relations between Status Indian Peoples and the Government of Canada 1969-1984. By Anne-Marie Mawhiney.
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Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912–1954. By Paul C. Rosier.
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Presettlement Rangeland Management on the Northern Plains
This material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management, the National Agricultural Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries.The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact [email protected] for further information.Migrated from OJS platform March 202
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