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1 Online-Ressource (vii, 398 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780226339368
Content:
Contents -- Possibly Ambiguous Terms -- Introduction. Territory and the Mapping Sciences -- I. The International Map of the World and the Logic of Representation -- 1. The Authority of Representation: A Single Map for All Countries, 1891-1939 -- 2. Maps as Tools: Globalism, Regionalism, and the Erosion of Universal Cartography, 1940-1965 -- II. Cartographic Grids and New Territories of Calculation -- 3. Aiming Guns, Recording Land, and Stitching Map to Territory: The Invention of Cartographic Grid Systems, 1914-1939
Content:
4. Territoriality without Borders: Global Grids and the Universal Transverse Mercator, 1940-1965 -- III. Electronic Navigation and Territorial Pointillism -- 5. Inhabiting the Grid: Radionavigation and Electronic Coordinates, 1920-1965 -- 6. The Politics of Global Coverage: The Navy, NASA, and GPS, 1960-2010 -- Conclusion: The Politics in My Pocket -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Codenames -- Notes -- Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226339535
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226339368
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rankin, William, 1978 - After the map Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016 ISBN 022633936X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226339368
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Kartografie
;
Geschichte 1890-2010
;
Navigation
;
Karte
;
GPS
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
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