Related Books

Colours on East Asian Maps
Language: en
Pages: 93
Authors: Diana Lange
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-02-06 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and h
Maps and Colours
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors:
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-25 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Colours make the map: they affect the map’s materiality, content, and handling. With a wide range of approaches, 14 case studies from various disciplines deal
Mr. Selden's Map of China
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Timothy Brook
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-12 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the author of the award-winning Vermeer's Hat, a historical detective story decoding a long-forgotten link between seventeenth century Europe and China. Ti
Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Richard A. Pegg
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-31 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The East Asian maps presented in this study are all found in the MacLean Collection"--Introduction.
A History of the World in 12 Maps
Language: en
Pages: 419
Authors: Jerry Brotton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-14 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the wa