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Cartography --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps

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This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to both. The vital intimacy of the relationship between exile and mapping compels a new spatial literacy that requires the cultivation of localized, dynamic reading practices attuned to the complexities of understanding space as text and texts as spatial artifacts. The collection asks: what kinds of maps do exiles make? How are they conceived, drawn, read? Are they private maps or can they be shaped collectively? What is their relationship to memory and history? How do maps provide for new ways of imagining the fractured experience of exile and offer up both new strategies for reading displacement and new displaced reading strategies? Where does exilic mapping fit into a history of cartography, particularly within the twentieth-century spatial turn?The original work that makes up this interdisciplinary collection presents a varied look at cartographic strategies employed in writing, art, and film from the pre-Contact Americas to the Renaissance to late postmodernism; the effects of exile, in its many manifestations, on cartographic textual systems, ways of seeing, and forms of reading; the challenges of traversing and mapping unstable landscapes and restrictive social and political networks; and the felicities and difficulties of both giving into the map and attempting to escape the map that provides for exile in the first place.Cartographies of Exile will be of interest to students and scholars working in literary and cultural studies; gender, sexuality, and race studies; anthropology; art history and architecture; film, performance, visual studies; and the fine arts.

Maps in literature --- Exiles in literature --- Cartography --- Exiles' writings --- History and criticism --- Cartography in literature --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps

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Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies to the enduring importance of these medieval visions for the Muslim cartographic imagination. With Medieval Islamic Maps, historian Karen C. Pinto brings us the first in-depth exploration of medieval Islamic cartography from the mid-tenth to the nineteenth century. Pinto focuses on the distinct tradition of maps known collectively as the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitab al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik, or KMMS), examining them from three distinct angles-iconography, context, and patronage. She untangles the history of the KMMS maps, traces their inception and evolution, and analyzes them to reveal the identities of their creators, painters, and patrons, as well as the vivid realities of the social and physical world they depicted. In doing so, Pinto develops innovative techniques for approaching the visual record of Islamic history, explores how medieval Muslims perceived themselves and their world, and brings Middle Eastern maps into the forefront of the study of the history of cartography.

Cartography --- Geography, Arab --- History --- Islam --- Geodesy. Cartography --- anno 500-1499 --- Beja (African people). --- Cartography. --- Geography, Arab. --- Geography, Medieval. --- Iṣṭakhrī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, --- Islamic Empire. --- Cartography - Islamic countries - History --- Arab geography --- Geography, Arabic --- Geography, Medieval --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- History.

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The 19th century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than 30 provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition.

912 <8> --- 912 "18" --- 912 "18" Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 912 "18" Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 912 <8> Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Zuid-Amerika --- 912 <8> Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Zuid-Amerika --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Zuid-Amerika --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Zuid-Amerika --- Cartography --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- History. --- Colombia. --- Comisión Corográfica Colombiana --- Colombia --- History --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel

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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 geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could - or should - be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion.

Cartography --- Geography --- Monsters --- Symbolic aspects of monsters --- Symbolism --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- History --- Sociological aspects --- Symbolic aspects --- 912:325 --- 912:930 --- 930.85 "15/17" --- 391/397 --- 391/397 Ethnografie --- Ethnografie --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- 930.85 "15/17" Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Moderne Tijd --- 912:930 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- 912:930 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Geschiedwetenschap. Hulpwetenschappen der geschiedenis --- 912:325 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- 912:325 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Western Hemisphere --- Cartography - Europe - History - 16th century --- Cartography - Europe - History - 17th century --- Geography - Sociological aspects --- Monsters - Symbolic aspects --- Western Hemisphere - Maps --- Sociological aspects. --- Hemisphere, Western --- New World --- Earth (Planet)