Posts Tagged ‘maps’
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
It will come as no surprise to regular readers of History in the Margins–or anyone who browses my office bookshelves–that I am fascinated by maps. As I’ve mentioned before, history happens in both time and space. How can you understand an event/culture/war/empire if you don’t have a feel for its geography? As someone interested in…
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The Love of Maps
I will tell you with no apology (and only a slight wiggle of nerdy embarrassment) that I love maps. I suppose it is theoretically possible to love history and not love maps. I just can’t imagine how that would work.* After all, history happens in both time and space. A quick look at the right…
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On The Map
Speaking of maps, as I believe we were, I recently spent several happy days with a book that straddles the intersection between cartography and history. Simon Garfield, author of the bestselling Just My Type, once again takes a subject that seems the province of a small group of enthusiasts and opens it for a larger…
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