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Recent
Books
Courtesy of Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Map Librarian, GIS
& Map Librarian, Branner Earth Sciences
Library & Map Collections, Stanford University, from the Society's most
recent newsletter.
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American
Geographers, 1784-1812: A Bio-bibliographical guide,
by
Ben A. Smith and James W. Vining, Praeger Publishers, 2003, ISBN:
0-313-32336-4, 328pages, $79.00. The first major guide of its kind
specifically focusing on American geographers.
The Arabian
Peninsula in Old European Maps, from the end of the 15th Century
to the Beginning of the 19th Century,
by Khalid M. Al-Ankary, Institut du monde arabe, 2001, ISBN: 2-843-06080-X,
431pages, $70.00 - $80.00. The book is split into two
parts. The first part discusses the principal concepts used in cartography.
The second part contains the collection of maps with explanations in
Arabic, French, and English.
China in
European Maps – A Library Special Collection,
compiled and edited by Min-min Chang, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology Library, 2003(?), 212 pages, $150.00. Limited edition of 1,000
copies, available from http://library.ust.hk/cgi-forms/mapsbook-order.pl. A
catalog of the collection with 55 plates and 247 illustrations in full color
accompanied by articles about China in maps, maps and the power of
representation, and an essay about an unrecorded map, the Sinarum Regni
Alioruq.
Florida, the
Making of a State: A Cartographic Adventure, January 17-March 28, 2002,
edited by James A. Finley, Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward
County Libraries Division, 2002, ISBN: 0-967-88584-1, 95 pages, $20.00.
This book accompanies the exhibit that was held at the
Bienes
Center in 2002.
The Geographical
Imagination in America, 1880-1950,
by Susan Schulten, Univ of Chicago Press, 2001, ISBN: 0-226-74056-0, 320
pages, $22.00. A history of geography as an academic pursuit as well as it
role in the public consciousness.
Historical
Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years,
by
Walter
F. Goffart, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003, ISBN: 0-226-30071-4, $65.00,
603pages. In addition to chapters outlining the history of historical
atlases, the book contains a detailed catalog of more than 700 historical
maps and atlases produced from 1570-1870.
The Maryland
State Archives atlas of historical maps of Maryland, 1608-1908,
by
Edward
C. Papenfuse and Joseph M. Coale III, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003,
ISBN: 0-801-87235-9, 223 pages, $70.00. An updated version of their earlier
(1982) book by the same title, this book contains over 250 full-color
reproductions from the state and federal archives.
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Book Reviews
Courtesy of Society members, from the Society's
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DECEMBER 2003
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Representing the Republic, by
John Rennie Short, Reaktion Books Ltd., 2001, ISBN 1861890869, 256 pages, $24.50.
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SEPTEMBER 2003
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Changing
Faces, Changing Places: Mapping Southern Californians,
by James
P. Allen and Eugene Turner, The Center for Geographical Studies, CSUN, 2002,
ISBN 0965696626 (pbk.), 60 pages, $24.95.
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Degrees of
Latitude: Mapping Colonial America, by Margaret Beck Pritchard and
Henry G. Taliaferro, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2002, ISBN
0810935392, 434 pages with 283 illustrations (including 159 plates in full
color), $95.
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The True
Story of How America Got Its Name,
by Rodney Broome, MJF Books, 2001, ISBN 1567315453, 188 pages, $7.95.
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JUNE 2003
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A Wilderness
So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America,
by Jon Kukla,
Alfred A Knopf, 2003, 430 pages with illustrations, maps and treaty texts,
$30.
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Measuring
America,
by Andro Linklater, Walker & Co., 2002, ISBN0802713963, 320 pages.
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Mercator: The
Man Who Mapped The Planet,
by Nicholas Crane, Henry Holt & Co., 2003, ISBN 0805066241, 320 pages.
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The Mismapping of
America,
by
Seymour
I. Schwartz,
University
of Rochester Press, 2003, ISBN 1-58046-129-8, 233 pages.
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Tracks in the
Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans,
by Chester G.
Hearn, McGraw Hill, 2002, ISBN0071368264, 288 pages
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DECEMBER 2002
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Mapping The
West, America’s Westward Movement 1524-1890,
by Paul E. Cohen with introduction by David Rumsey, Rizzoli International
Publications, Inc., New York, 2002, ISBN 0-8478-2492-6, 205 pages with
bibliography, prints, and maps in full color, $50. |
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