The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography, Issue 2002In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional, "positivist" model of cartography, replacing it with one that is grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps. He defines a map as a "social construction" and argues that maps are not simple representations of reality but exert profound influences upon the way space is conceptualized and organized. A central theme is the way in which power—whether military, political, religious, or economic—becomes inscribed on the land through cartography. In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious. |
Contents
Text and Contexts in the Interpretation of Early Maps | 33 |
Maps Knowledge and Power | 51 |
Silences and Secrecy The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe | 83 |
Power and Legitimation in the English Geographical Atlases of the Eighteenth Century | 109 |
Deconstructing the Map | 149 |
New England Cartography and the Native Americans | 169 |
Can There Be a Cartographic Ethics? | 197 |
Notes | 209 |
Works | 281 |
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