Mapping Mountains

Ernesto Capello (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

92 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
9789004441231 (ISBN)

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Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge. Ernesto Capello surveys both the technical history of relief representation and the broad history of the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains.

Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an initial overview and critique of the traditional historiography and development of techniques of relief representation, the essay features four clusters of mountain mapping emphases. These include visions of mountains as paradise, the mountain as site of colonial and postcolonial encounter, the development of elevation profiles and panoramas, and mountains as mass-marketed touristed itineraries.

Ernesto Capello (Ph.D. Texas, 2005) is Professor of History at Macalester College. He has published City at the Center of the World: Space, History and Modernity in Quito (Pittsburgh, 2011) and numerous articles on cities, mountains, and visuality in science.

Mapping Mountains

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Introduction

1 The Traditional Historiography and its Challengers

1.1 Just What is a Mountain Anyway?

1.2 Traditional Historiography

1.3 Challenging Traditional Historiography

1.4 A Rather Brief Overview of Contemporary Cartographic Relief Presentation

2 Paradise and Pilgrimage

3 Colonial and Postcolonial Peaks

4 Profiles and Panoramas

5 Touristed Itineraries

Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgements

Erscheinungsdatum	28.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Brill Research Perspectives in Map History
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	151 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-13	9789004441231 / 9789004441231
Zustand	Neuware