History of the world in maps : the rise and fall of empires, countries and cities / chief editor: Mick Ashworth ; history editor and main contributor: Philip Parker.
Material type: MapPublisher: Glasgow [Scotland] : Times Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 atlas (256 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 36 cmContent type:- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780008147792
- 0008147795
- 9780007588244
- 0007588240
- 9780008204778
- 0008204772
- Rise and fall of empires, countries and cities
- Times History of the world in maps : the rise and fall of empires, countries and cities
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From Babylonian tablets to Google Maps, the world has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which we see it. In this time, cartography has not only kept pace with these changes, but has often driven them. In this beautiful book, over 70 maps give a visual representation of the history of the world.
Every map tells a story and this book tells the incredible history of our world through maps, and includes many famous examples of cartography, along with some that deserve to be better known. See countries and cities come and go, empires rise and fall, significant geographical discoveries, and key historical events unfold.
Key maps shown include:
* Babylonian clay tablets, c.2300 BC and c.600 BC - some of the world's oldest surviving maps.
* Waldseemüller World Map, 1507 - the first map to use the name 'America' for the New World.
* Waghenaer chart, 1584 - a forerunner to modern nautical charts.
* Abel Buell map of North America, 1782 - the first map of the newly independent United States that was produced in America by an American.
* The Scramble for Africa, 1852/1898 - maps of new colonies being created.
* Ypres, 1918 - map of the aftermath of the First World War.
* Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 - map used by President John F. Kennedy during the crisis.
Maps on end pages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"From ancient Babylon to the Google age, the world has evolved rapidly along with the ways we see it. In this time, cartography has not only kept pace with, and reflected these changes, but has often driven them. In this beautiful book, over 70 maps give a visual representation of the history of the world."--Cover.
Introduction -- c.1500 BC, Babylonian town plans -- c.600 BC, Babylonian world map -- c.1150 BC, Turin papyrus map -- c. AD/c.1300, Ptolemy: world map -- AD300/c.1200, Peutinger table: Roman route map -- c.565, Palestine: Madaba mosaic map -- c.1135, Chinese stone maps: Hua yi tu and Yu ji tu -- c.1154, al-Idrisi world map -- c.1250, Matthew Paris: itinerary map -- c.1290, Carte Pisane, Portolan sea chart -- c.1290, A christian world view: Hereford mappa mundi -- c.1375, Cresques: Catalan atlas -- 1422, Constantinople: city map -- 1440/1920, The Vinland map: Viking America? -- 1502, Cantino planisphere: a new world chart -- 1507, Waldseemüller: world map -- 1524/1541, Tenochtitlán: Aztec city maps -- c.1535, Reinel: Trans-Atlantic influence -- 1569, Mercator -- 1584, Waghenaer: nautical charts -- 1570, Ortelius: world map -- c.1620, China: the Selden map -- c.1645, Blaeu: mapping dominance -- 1680, van Keulen: East Indies spice trade -- 1745/1895, Imperial Russia -- 1702, Halley: global magnetism -- 1815, Smith: geological map -- 1788, Cassini Caret de France: mapping a nation -- 1770, Cook: chart of New Zealand -- 1804, Flinders: chart of Australia -- 1782, James Rennel: map of India -- 1784, Abel Buell: United States -- 1814, Lewis and Clark: across North America -- 1852, The Industrial Revolution -- 1855, Snow: cholera map -- 1898, Booth: poverty map -- 1856, Reynolds: slavery map -- 1863, Gettysburg: battlefield map -- 1852/1898, Scramble for Africa -- 1871, Railroads across America -- 1876, Mapping the ocean floor -- 1882, Surveying India: survey index chart -- 1886, John Colomb: the British Empire -- 1907, North Atlantic Ocean: transatlantic shipping -- 1914, India: British imperial power -- 1916/1920, Dividing the Middle East -- 1918, Ypres: First World War aftermath -- c.1939, Germany: the Third Reich -- 1942, East Asia: Japan's co-prosperity sphere -- 1944, Omaha Beach: D-Day -- 1948, Independence of Israel -- 1947, Punjab: partition of India -- c.1957, Persian Gulf: oil and energy -- 1957, World powers -- c.1961, Berlin: the Berlin wall -- 1959, Antarctica: protection of a continent -- 1945/1977, Decolonization -- 1958, World air routes: air travel -- 1961, Mapping the moon -- 1962, Cuban missile crisis -- 1972, Earth observation -- 1973, South Africa: homelands map -- 1995, The Balkans: the Dayton Agreement -- 1995, Middle East: the Oslo Accords -- 2014, Mapping today: Google Maps.