The new nature of maps : essays in the history of cartography /

Harley, J. B.

The new nature of maps : essays in the history of cartography / J.B. Harley ; edited by Paul Laxton ; introduction by J.H. Andrews. - Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition. - xv, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Plates, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia.".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.

Texts and contexts in the interpretation of early maps -- Maps, knowledge, and power -- Silences and secrecy: the hidden agenda of cartography in early modern Europe -- Power and legitimation in the English geographical atlases of the eighteenth century -- Deconstructing the map -- New England cartography and the Native Americans -- Can there be a cartographic ethics?

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