Maps online: digital historical geographies
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- 作者：Jerry Brotton
- 关键词：Website ; Exhibition ; Atlas ; Map ; Nation ; Digital humanities
- 刊名：Journal of Historical Geography
- 出版年：January, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：43
- 期：Complete
- 页码：169-174
- 全文大小：6493 K
文摘
This essay considers two websites devoted to the display and interpretation of historical maps. Atlases: Poetics, Politics and Performance is an online exhibition created by researchers and librarians, with introductory texts by Veronica Della Dora and Mark Jackson. It draws from a selection of atlases spanning the four centuries from c.1570 to 1970 which are preserved in the University of Bristol Library's Special Collections and in the Library of the School of Geographical Sciences. Mapping the Nation is a companion site to Susan Schulten's book of the same name, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2012. It offers a comprehensive survey of over 120 national, regional and thematic maps of North America from 1811 to 1932. Together, they provide an opportunity to reflect on the digital methods by which research in historical geography may best be presented over the coming years.