Ron Johnston and Michael Williams (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197262863
- eISBN:
- 9780191734076
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262863.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Population and Demography
These chapters in this book trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an ...
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These chapters in this book trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. The principal themes covered in this volume are those of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map making and planning. The book also addresses specific issues such as disease, urbanization, regional viability, and ethics and social problems.Less
These chapters in this book trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. The principal themes covered in this volume are those of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map making and planning. The book also addresses specific issues such as disease, urbanization, regional viability, and ethics and social problems.
Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226173023
- eISBN:
- 9780226173160
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226173160.003.0008
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
This chapter introduces readers to the topography of Alsace-Lorraine from the perspective of the migratory storks that fly over the region each year. It then introduces the concept of “cartophilia” ...
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This chapter introduces readers to the topography of Alsace-Lorraine from the perspective of the migratory storks that fly over the region each year. It then introduces the concept of “cartophilia” as a passion for map making and map reading that spread across modern Europe from the late eighteenth century onwards. Cartophilia, the book argues, was inspired by European nationalist movements and made possible through affordable new printing technologies. The chapter also provides an overview of the book’s main contributions to the history of cartography, spatial history, and the history of European nationalism. It concludes with a description of the book’s six thematic chapters, each of which focuses on a different kind of borderland map.Less
This chapter introduces readers to the topography of Alsace-Lorraine from the perspective of the migratory storks that fly over the region each year. It then introduces the concept of “cartophilia” as a passion for map making and map reading that spread across modern Europe from the late eighteenth century onwards. Cartophilia, the book argues, was inspired by European nationalist movements and made possible through affordable new printing technologies. The chapter also provides an overview of the book’s main contributions to the history of cartography, spatial history, and the history of European nationalism. It concludes with a description of the book’s six thematic chapters, each of which focuses on a different kind of borderland map.
Aara Suksi
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- June 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198744771
- eISBN:
- 9780191805936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198744771.003.0012
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
In Homeric epic, describing a map of the world, like epic song itself, is a privilege granted by the divine Muses and figured in Hephaestus’ shield-making. In two examples from Aeschylean tragedy, a ...
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In Homeric epic, describing a map of the world, like epic song itself, is a privilege granted by the divine Muses and figured in Hephaestus’ shield-making. In two examples from Aeschylean tragedy, a defiant hero appropriates the map-making prerogative of the gods established in Homeric epic. In each case, in a bid to restructure the existing order, the hero lays claim to the divine ability to map the space of the world without invoking the Muses. In Prometheus Bound, Prometheus’ gift of a map to mortal Io is not just an altruistic favour. It is also a part of his strategy for controlling and directing the future in a way that will ultimately lead to his own liberation. In Agamemnon, Clytemnestra uses Hephaestus’ fire to map space instantaneously. Her control of the god’s technology is aligned with her scandalous power over every other aspect of the action of the play.Less
In Homeric epic, describing a map of the world, like epic song itself, is a privilege granted by the divine Muses and figured in Hephaestus’ shield-making. In two examples from Aeschylean tragedy, a defiant hero appropriates the map-making prerogative of the gods established in Homeric epic. In each case, in a bid to restructure the existing order, the hero lays claim to the divine ability to map the space of the world without invoking the Muses. In Prometheus Bound, Prometheus’ gift of a map to mortal Io is not just an altruistic favour. It is also a part of his strategy for controlling and directing the future in a way that will ultimately lead to his own liberation. In Agamemnon, Clytemnestra uses Hephaestus’ fire to map space instantaneously. Her control of the god’s technology is aligned with her scandalous power over every other aspect of the action of the play.
Sujit Sivasundaram
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226038223
- eISBN:
- 9780226038360
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226038360.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter is first a history of cartography and then a history of roads and bridges. It begins with an account of the wars of 1803 and 1815, and the importance of topographical information to ...
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This chapter is first a history of cartography and then a history of roads and bridges. It begins with an account of the wars of 1803 and 1815, and the importance of topographical information to their outcome, before outlining the sources of topographical information among rural communities in Lanka. It then traces the emergence of British cartography in the island and highlights how this cartography was not purely an objective study, but one that also had aesthetic qualities. The second half of the chapter deals with the application of map-making to roads, bridges, canals, and reservoirs.Less
This chapter is first a history of cartography and then a history of roads and bridges. It begins with an account of the wars of 1803 and 1815, and the importance of topographical information to their outcome, before outlining the sources of topographical information among rural communities in Lanka. It then traces the emergence of British cartography in the island and highlights how this cartography was not purely an objective study, but one that also had aesthetic qualities. The second half of the chapter deals with the application of map-making to roads, bridges, canals, and reservoirs.
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853236580
- eISBN:
- 9781846313295
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853236580.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
Although Europeans were hostile to Muslims, they still embarked on dangerous sea voyages, risking their lives in exchange for the opportunity not only to make pilgrimage to the Christian holy places ...
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Although Europeans were hostile to Muslims, they still embarked on dangerous sea voyages, risking their lives in exchange for the opportunity not only to make pilgrimage to the Christian holy places but also to increase the lucrative trade with the infidels. Travellers knew little about pharaonic Egypt in fourteenth-century Europe, but the revival of classical learning led to a rather incomplete picture of that ancient country that combined fact and fantasy. Ancient Egypt was considered full of mystery and wonders, and a place of magic and astrology. Contemporary travel literature was based on earlier works that only perpetuated some of the myths about Egypt. Together with the development of map-making, travellers wrote accounts of their personal experiences to be read by those at home, including graphic details of the dangers and discomforts they encountered during their odyssey at sea.Less
Although Europeans were hostile to Muslims, they still embarked on dangerous sea voyages, risking their lives in exchange for the opportunity not only to make pilgrimage to the Christian holy places but also to increase the lucrative trade with the infidels. Travellers knew little about pharaonic Egypt in fourteenth-century Europe, but the revival of classical learning led to a rather incomplete picture of that ancient country that combined fact and fantasy. Ancient Egypt was considered full of mystery and wonders, and a place of magic and astrology. Contemporary travel literature was based on earlier works that only perpetuated some of the myths about Egypt. Together with the development of map-making, travellers wrote accounts of their personal experiences to be read by those at home, including graphic details of the dangers and discomforts they encountered during their odyssey at sea.
David Wheatley
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748696000
- eISBN:
- 9781474422284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696000.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter explores questions of poetic territory in Jamie’s poetry, with particular focus on Jizzen,The Tree House and The Overhaul. Wheatley considers Jamie’s political and historical poems, and ...
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This chapter explores questions of poetic territory in Jamie’s poetry, with particular focus on Jizzen,The Tree House and The Overhaul. Wheatley considers Jamie’s political and historical poems, and their refusal to align poetic map-making with nation-building projects. Her poems about Scottish landmarks imaginatively explore local histories, rather than presuming to overturn them. She is aware of the complexities of land-ownership in Scotland and her poems make no claims of ownership of Romantic bowers or forest groves. In a distinct refusal of the bardic self-aggrandizements of Yeats or English Romantic poets, Jamie celebrates provisional sheltering spaces found on cliff-sides or coast-lines. Poetic territory remains provisional, just as political-cultural arrangements of landscape prove transient, in Jamie’s recent poetry.Less
This chapter explores questions of poetic territory in Jamie’s poetry, with particular focus on Jizzen,The Tree House and The Overhaul. Wheatley considers Jamie’s political and historical poems, and their refusal to align poetic map-making with nation-building projects. Her poems about Scottish landmarks imaginatively explore local histories, rather than presuming to overturn them. She is aware of the complexities of land-ownership in Scotland and her poems make no claims of ownership of Romantic bowers or forest groves. In a distinct refusal of the bardic self-aggrandizements of Yeats or English Romantic poets, Jamie celebrates provisional sheltering spaces found on cliff-sides or coast-lines. Poetic territory remains provisional, just as political-cultural arrangements of landscape prove transient, in Jamie’s recent poetry.
