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Maps reveal more than just geography: they are a window into the culture, beliefs, and history of the great civilizations of the world. This beautifully illustrated book explores more than 60 of the world's most influential maps to provide a unique insight into how cartographers have shaped and depicted their world. Showing how and why each one was made, Great Maps offers in-depth analysis and uses close-up details to reveal hidden features.
Maps reveal more than just geography: they are a window into the culture, beliefs, and history of the great civilizations of the world. This beautifully illustrated book explores more than 60 of the world's most influential maps to provide a unique insight into how cartographers have shaped and depicted their world. Showing how and why each one was made, Great Maps offers in-depth analysis and uses close-up details to reveal hidden features.
Über den Autor
Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is a regular broadcaster and critic as well the author of The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Hessell-Tiltman History Prize), This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, and the bestselling and award-winning A History of the World in Twelve Maps, which has been translated into twenty languages.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
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Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: |
256 S.
maps |
ISBN-13: | 9781409345718 |
ISBN-10: | 1409345718 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Brotton, Jerry |
Hersteller: | Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
Maße: | 309 x 263 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Jerry Brotton |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2014 |
Gewicht: | 1,629 kg |
Über den Autor
Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is a regular broadcaster and critic as well the author of The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Hessell-Tiltman History Prize), This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, and the bestselling and award-winning A History of the World in Twelve Maps, which has been translated into twenty languages.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
---|---|
Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: |
256 S.
maps |
ISBN-13: | 9781409345718 |
ISBN-10: | 1409345718 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Brotton, Jerry |
Hersteller: | Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
Maße: | 309 x 263 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Jerry Brotton |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2014 |
Gewicht: | 1,629 kg |
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