Cartographia : mapping civilizations / Vincent Virga and the Library of Congress ; introduction by Ronald E. Grim ; afterword by James H. Billington.

By: Virga, VincentContributor(s): Library of CongressMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown and Co., 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 266 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 35 cmISBN: 9780316997669 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0316997668 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0821257579 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780821257579 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Cartography -- History | Cartography -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 912 LOC classification: GA203 | .V57 2007Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information
Contents:
Introduction : Theater of the world -- Prologue -- The Mediterranean world -- The Babylonians -- The Egyptians -- The Greeks -- The Etruscans -- The Romans -- The Islamic world -- The Hold land -- The Mediterranean Sea -- The three-part world -- Asia -- Africa -- Europe -- The fourth part : The Americas -- Latin America -- Anglo America -- The fifth part : Oceania and Antarctica -- Oceania -- Antarctica -- Epilogue : The unseen cultural world -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Cartobibliography -- Index.
Summary: A collection of over two hundred maps, including pages from "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" and the human genome map, which provides information on the history of cartography as well as background information about the cultural, social, and economic conditions of the time in which the maps were drawn.
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Maps on lining papers.

Ill. on frontispiece.

Includes cartobibliographical references (p. 255-258) and index.

Introduction : Theater of the world -- Prologue -- [pt. 1]. The Mediterranean world -- The Babylonians -- The Egyptians -- The Greeks -- The Etruscans -- The Romans -- The Islamic world -- The Hold land -- The Mediterranean Sea -- [pt. 2]. The three-part world -- Asia -- Africa -- Europe -- [pt. 3]. The fourth part : The Americas -- Latin America -- Anglo America -- [pt. 4]. The fifth part : Oceania and Antarctica -- Oceania -- Antarctica -- Epilogue : The unseen cultural world -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Cartobibliography -- Index.

A collection of over two hundred maps, including pages from "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" and the human genome map, which provides information on the history of cartography as well as background information about the cultural, social, and economic conditions of the time in which the maps were drawn.

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