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This volume argues that the mapping of stories, movement and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a longer history than might be assumed. The authors in this collection reflect upon the main characteristics and evolutions of story and motion mapping, from the figurative news and history maps that were mass-produced in early modern Europe, through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century flow maps that appeared in various atlases, up to the digital and interactive motion and personalised maps that are created today. Rather than presenting a clear and homogeneous history from the past up until the present, this book offers a toolbox for understanding and interpreting the complex interplays and links between narrative, motion and maps.

Title Motion in maps, maps in motion : mapping stories and movement through time / Zef Segal and Bram Vannieuwenhuyze. [electronic resource]
Publisher Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
Creation Date 2020
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).
Includes bibliographical references.
Content The New World map and the old : the moving narrative of Joan Blaeu's Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula (1648) -- Entangled maps : topography and narratives in early modern story maps -- Flow mapping through the times : the transition from harness to Nazi propaganda -- The tensions of heterochronicity on cartographies of imperial motion in Japan -- A school atlas as a history machine: the Bosatlas online -- Facebook cartographies and the mapping of local history : storied maps from the American Middletown -- 'Change-of-state' in the history of cartography.
Extent 1 online resource (184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997010709494205171
MARC RECORDS
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