Book ID: CBB667042917

Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir (2014)

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Adventures in Academic Cartography is a personal memoir offering insight to the diverse impacts of computer technology on the world of cartography and mapping. It surveys the author's half century of work as a scholar, educator, and editor as well as his commitment to demystifying for general readers the power of maps as a tool for understanding and persuasion. An overview of his undergraduate and graduate training and early university employment precedes engaging accounts of his experiences as a classroom teacher; academic researcher, book author, journal editor, consultant, and editor of Cartography in the Twentieth Century (Volume Six of the monumental History of Cartography). Additional chapters reveal his views on theory, map collecting, and writing. This integrated collection of stories promotes an understanding of the many facets of academic cartography, which emerged in the twentieth century as a distinct mapping endeavor that touches geographic education, technological innovation, national defense, public policy, professional organizations, libraries, map collections, and academic and trade publishing.

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Review Roger Downs (2016) Review of "Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 116-117). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Panecki, Tomasz
Ramon Grau
Henniges, Norman
Šolar, Renata
Markus Oehrli
Hornsby, Stephen J.
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Geography
Technology
Science and culture
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Medieval
18th century
Ancient
Places
Germany
Great Britain
Africa
England
Barcelona (Spain)
Catalonia (Spain)
Institutions
United Nations
British Library
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