Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insight…
Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insight…
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a?crumbling city? populated by?broken ruins? into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fasci…
At the turn of the 15th century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the 14th-century poet Petrarch had termed a 'crumbling city' populated by 'broken ruins' into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by …
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a?crumbling city? populated by?broken ruins? into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fasci…
"Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geogr…
Ways of Knowing Cities
Technology mediates how we know and experience cities, and the nature of this mediation has always been deeply political. Today, the production and deployment of data is at the forefront of projects to grasp and reshape urban life. Ways of Knowing Cities considers the role of te…
Consists of thirteen contributions that focuses on the trends of information structure and agreement, couched in the present developments of Minimalism, Cartography, and Optimality. In this book, chapters deal with notion of agreement and its role in syntax of specific construct…
Go: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson
Since the early 1960s, Swedish geographer Gunnar Olsson has made substantial contributions to his own discipline. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the entire range of Olsson's geography from the early days of spatial science to his contemporar…
An overview of the history of the graphic representation of time through almanacs, charts, graphs, and other forms in the United States and Europe since 1450.
What does history look like? How do you draw time? From the most ancient images to the contemporary, the line has served as the central figure in the representation of time. The linear metaphor is ubiquitous in everyday visual representations of time--in almanacs, calendars, cha…
An overview of the history of the graphic representation of time through almanacs, charts, graphs, and other forms in the United States and Europe since 1450.