Historiske kort og atlas

Dette pragtværk med mere end 200 smukke historiske kort fortæller, hvordan konturerne af Danmark tog form på kort fra 1400-tallet til starten af 1800-tallet. Da var landet efterhånden blevet fuldstændigt opmålt af Videnskabernes Selskab.Bogen giver et overblik over kartografiens historie og præsenterer de centrale opmålingsmetoder, personligheder og kort. Ud over danmarkskort vises kort over danske byer, kolonier, Slesvig-Holsten, Skandinavien samt de nordatlantiske besiddelser.I bogen beskrives også de politiske, kulturelle og teknologiske rammer, som kortene må forstås indenfor. De historiske kort bliver dermed på mere end én måde et billede af Danmark i evig forandring.

From cave paintings to Google, a thought-provoking investigation of how maps do not just reflect the world around us, but shape the way we live. Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out is an exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural levels. This book offers a journey through the fascinating history of maps, from ancient cave paintings and stone carvings to the digital interfaces we rely on today. But it's not just about the maps themselves; it's about the people behind them. All Mapped Out reveals how maps have affected societies, influenced politics and economies, impacted the environment, and even shaped our sense of personal identity. Mike Duggan uncovers the incredible power of maps to shape the world and the knowledge we consume, offering a unique and eye-opening perspective on the significance of maps in our daily lives.

A stunning journey through the Holy Land, as told by the rare maps and prints that have long inspired Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages. From the earliest days of the Roman Empire to the current war between Israel and Hamas, mapping the Holy Land has been a never-ending source of high aspirations and bitter conflict. Sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, the Holy Land has always inspired Christians to walk in the footsteps of the Bible, to imagine the route of the Exodus, or discover the places of Jesus' ministry. Muslims, too, longed to see the geographical contours of the ummah, the greater Muslim community, while Jews remembered the days when Jerusalem was the destination for three holy festivals. In response, cartographers from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age drew their inspiration from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages to depict, with growing confidence, the exotic locations of the Holy Land. Mapping the Holy Land is the first book to tell the thrilling story of these travels and the incredible prints and maps they spawned, up to the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Illustrated with rare, hand-colored maps and engravings throughout and riveting scene-setting history, this remarkable volume from rare maps collector Neal Asbury, CEO of The Legacy Companies and host of Neal Asbury's Made in America, and National Geographic best-selling author Jean-Pierre Isbouts, coauthors of Mapping America, shows how the faithful overcame impossible odds to reach the Holy Land, and dives deep into the historical understanding of these elusive lands from Roman times up to the modern Israeli-Arab conflict.

"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and together constitute the entire known corpus of ancient Chinese maps (ditu). A millennium separates them from the next available map from 1136 CE. Most scholars study them through the lens of modern, empirical definitions of maps and their use. This book offers an alternative view by drawing on methods not just from cartography but from art history, archaeology, and religion. It argues that, as tomb objects, the maps were designed to be simultaneously functional for the living and the dead-that each map was drawn to serve navigational purposes of guiding the living from one town to another as well as to diagram ritual order, thereby taming the unknown territory of the dead. In contrast with traditional scholarship, The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China proposes that ditu can "speak" through their forms. Departing from dominant theories of representation that forge a narrow path from form to meaning, the book braids together two main strands of argumentation to explore the multifaceted and multifunctional diagrammatic tradition of rendering space in early China"--

Die Neuausgabe von Stephanos von Byzanz, Ethnika, entspricht einem langen Desiderat, ersetzt sie doch die uberholte Edition von A. Meineke (1849). Die grossen Fortschritte der vergangenen Jahrzehnte in Uberlieferungsgeschichte klassischer Texte und Editionstechnik von Fragmenten und Epitomen, in der lexikographischen Forschung, in der Stephanos-Analyse und besonders in der archaologisch-epigraphisch orientierten Siedlungsgeschichte des Mittelmeerraums und Kleinasiens machten eine Neukonzeption der Ausgabe unumganglich: Verzicht auf Rekonstruktionsversuche des ursprunglichen Lexikons, aber Beigabe von Similia, welche der Quellenbenutzung durch Stephanos sowie der indirekten Uberlieferung der Ethnika Rechnung tragen. Die zahlreichen Autorenzitate werden nachgewiesen, der griechische Originaltext durch Ubersetzung in eine moderne Sprache zuganglich gemacht und durch Anmerkungen sowohl formal erklart als auch inhaltlich erschlossen. Der Einbezug neuester historischer Standardwerke und ausgewahlter Forschungsliteratur zu Namenskunde, Topographie sowie Lokal- und Siedlungsgeschichte versteht sich als Beitrag zum zunehmend interdisziplinar betriebenen Bereich der Historischen Geographie.

Die Bedeutung der Schifffahrt auf den Flussen des Romischen Reiches kann kaum hoch genug geschatzt werden. In einem zentral organisierten Reich, das sich schon in der fruhen Kaiserzeit uber6 Mio. km2 erstreckte, spielten die Flusse sowohl bei der Kommunikation als auch beim Transport von Menschen und Gutern eine groe Rolle. Dem entsprach sicher auch die Bedeutung der Hafen als Knotenpunkte der Infrastruktur zu Wasser und zu Land. Vor allem bei der Konsolidierung neu eroberter Provinzen waren sie unverzichtbar fur Logistik, Truppentransport und Nachrichtenubermittlung. Uber das Aussehen und die technische Ausstattung eines Binnenhafens herrschte bisher jedoch noch Unklarheit. Die Forschung konzentrierte sich hauptsachlich auf einzelne Hafenfundorte. Mit in portum navigare"e; wird nun erstmalig eine Sammlung und kritische Auswertung der bisherigen Einzelergebnisse zum Thema vorgelegt. Im Katalogteil wurden hierzu alle bis 2008 in der Literatur vorgelegten Installationen, deren Baumaterial, Datierungen, Entwicklungsgeschichte, zugehorige antike Quellen und die Sekundarliteratur zu allen Hafenfundorten zusammengestellt. Dabei wurde keine raumliche und zeitliche Eingrenzung innerhalb des Romischen Reiches vorgenommen, sondern alle in der Literatur als romisch"e; bezeichneten Befunde gesammelt. Insgesamt wurden ca. 300 Hafenfundstellen katalogisiert. Die Belege reichen von konkreten archaologischen Untersuchungsergebnissen uber Hinweise in den Schriftquellen bis zu Indizien, wie umfangreiche Amphorenfunde. Kartierungen der Hafen spiegeln den unterschiedlichen Forschungsstand in den einzelnen Teilen des Romischen Reiches wider, bieten aber auch neue Forschungserkenntnisse.Damit steht dem interessierten Forscher nun ein umfangreiches Kompendium zum Thema mit kritischen Fragestellungen und direkten Vergleichsmoglichkeiten mit anderen Fundorten zur Verfugung.

From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 196 fascinating maps. Together the maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that shattered Europe, and illustrate its military, social, political and economic aspects. Beginning with the tensions that already existed, the atlas covers:The early months of the war - from the German attack on Belgium and France, to the fierce fighting on the Western and Eastern FrontsThe developing war in Europe and beyond - from the Somme and Verdun to Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, in the Near East and Africa, and in the PacificThe war at sea and in the air - from the Zeppelin and air raids to the naval battles, shipping losses and Atlantic convoysLife at the front - the trench system, living underground, the mud of Passchendaele, the French and Russian mutiniesTechnology and the intensifying war - from phosgene gas to submarines, tanks and aerial bombardmentThe home front - war supplies, munitions factories, the air defence of Britain, German food riots, the entry of the United States into the war, the Russian Revolution, and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman EmpiresThe aftermath - the peace treaties and territorial changes, war debts, war deaths, and the new map of Europe along with the visual remembrance of the war, memorials that commemorate the tragedy.This new edition now includes an additional 23 of Martin Gilbert's maps, across the whole period of the war, originally published across a range of publications, now gathered in this one volume for the first time.

'Exquisitely written ... Be prepared to be swept away on an incredible journey' Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author of Black Ice'A story about magical maps that lead to your heart's desire [and] the people who would do anything to find them ... A vastly rich experience' Charles Soule, author of The Oracle YearThere are some maps you can lose yourself in...Nell Young has lived her life in and around maps. Her father, Dr. David Young, was one of the most respected cartographers in the world. But this morning he was found dead - or murdered? - in his office at the New York Public Library. Nell hadn't spoken to her father in years, ever since he fired her after an argument over a seemingly worthless highway roadside map. A map which was mass-produced - and every copy of which is now being found and destroyed. But why? To answer that question, Nell will embark on a dangerous journey into the heart of a conspiracy beyond belief, the secrets behind her family, and the true power that lies in maps . . . THE CARTOGRAPHERS is a story about Art and Science: where they meet, how they both enrich our lives, and how each defines the other. And it's a book about the mystery, history, and ineffable romance of maps.

Can geographers actually create their fatherlands? The story of the territorial reconstruction of East Central Europe in the wake of WWI gives an affirmative answer.The protagonists of this book were a cohort of young, talented and exceedingly ambitious people fascinated by the modernity of late 19th century German geographical sciences. During wartime they proved particularly successful in scholarship and in scientifically based national propaganda. Some of them succeeded in influencing the spatial idea of 'just borders' that allegedly corresponded best to geographical and ethnical realities. They offered ready-made solutions to questions of the self-determination of nations formulated by US President Wilson. But already during the Paris Peace Conference, geographers moved to concepts of a 'natural', 'biological' border, to ideas of the subjugation of entire ethnic groups. They now cherished visions of a demographic and geographical utopia of states that were ethnically homogeneous.