ilość książek w kategorii: 3413
Historical Atlas of California: With Original Maps
ISBN: 9780520252585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Using nearly five hundred historical maps and many other illustrations--from rough sketches drawn in the field to commercial maps to beautifully rendered works of art--this lavishly illustrated volume is the first to tell the story of California's past from a unique visual perspective. Covering five hundred years of history, it offers a compelling and informative look at the transformation of the state from before European contact through the Gold Rush and up to the present. The maps are accompanied by a concise, engaging narrative and by extended captions that elucidate the stories and...
Using nearly five hundred historical maps and many other illustrations--from rough sketches drawn in the field to commercial maps to beautifully rende...
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205,88 zł |
Planetary Mapping
ISBN: 9780521033732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Planetary Mapping describes the history and process of mapping planets and satellites beyond the Earth. Mapping planetary bodies is a unique process much different from ordinary terrestrial cartography. The book begins with an introduction to the differences between terrestrial and planetary mapping and continues with a general discussion of the history of planetary mapping. The fundamentals of cartographic techniques are described in detail, and appendixes on map formats and projects, halftone processes for planetary maps, and available mission data are also included. The general language...
Planetary Mapping describes the history and process of mapping planets and satellites beyond the Earth. Mapping planetary bodies is a unique process m...
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283,04 zł |
Atlas of Slavery
ISBN: 9780582437807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. James Walvin provides a comprehensive visual history of slavery from its origins in the ancient world to the present, focusing on the American experience.
James Walvin provides a comprehensive visual history of slavery from its origins in the ancient world to the present, focusing on the American experie...
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308,77 zł |
Historical Atlas of Islam
ISBN: 9780674013858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this one-of-a-kind reference, the historical development of Islamic societies is explained through short essays, illustrations, and full-color maps that incorporate often neglected geographical and environmental factors, from the Fertile Crescent to the North African desert.
In this one-of-a-kind reference, the historical development of Islamic societies is explained through short essays, illustrations, and full-color maps...
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124,34 zł |
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World [With CDROM of Map-By-Map Directory]
ISBN: 9780691031699 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa. It spans the territory of more than 75 modern countries. Its large format (13 1/4 x 18 in. or 33.7 x 46.4 cm) has been custom-designed by the leading cartographic supplier, MapQuest.com, Inc., and is unrivaled for range, clarity, and detail. Over 70 experts, aided by an equal number of consultants, have worked from satellite-generated aeronautical charts to return the modern landscape to... In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isl... |
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1896,30 zł |
Barrington Atlas Map-By-Map Directory (Two-Volumes)
ISBN: 9780691049458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 1448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa. It spans the territory of more than 75 modern countries. Its large format (13 1/4 x 18 in. or 33.7 x 46.4 cm) has been custom-designed by the leading cartographic supplier, MapQuest.com, Inc., and is unrivaled for range, clarity, and detail. Over 70 experts, aided by an equal number of consultants, have worked from satellite-generated aeronautical charts to return the modern landscape to... In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isl... |
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1674,16 zł |
North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
ISBN: 9780742500198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the second half of the twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the key themes of acquisition of geographical knowledge, cultural transfer and acculturation, frontier expansion, spatial organization of society,...
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and up...
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460,53 zł |
The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania
ISBN: 9780801868917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its dispersed farms, county seats, and farm-service villages, and its mixed crop and livestock agriculture served as models for much of the rural Middle West. To many western Europeans in the eighteenth century, life in early Pennsylvania offered a veritable paradise and refuge from oppression. Some called it -the best poor man's country in the world.- The role of cultural backgrounds is... In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its populat... |
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143,58 zł |
Geographical Inquiry and American Historical Problems
ISBN: 9780804715751 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The twelve essays in this volume re-examine a handful of perennial problems in American history from a geographical point of view. From this perspective there emerges a series of reinterpretations of the central processes that defined the American experience, whether of colonization, of regional development and sectionalism, of slavery and freedom, of urbanization and industrialization, or of working-class history. The essays encompass the first three centuries of American history, beginning with the nightmarish world of disease and death that was early Virginia and ending with the melancholy...
The twelve essays in this volume re-examine a handful of perennial problems in American history from a geographical point of view. From this perspecti...
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437,50 zł |
Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map
ISBN: 9780804749626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The -Vinland Map- first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since--in controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of historical and cartographical riddles. Maps, Myths, and Men is the first work to address the full range of this debate. Focusing closely on what the map in fact shows, the book contains a critique of the 1965 work The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; scrutinizes the marketing strategies used in 1957; and covers many aspects of the...
The -Vinland Map- first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since--in controversies rang...
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643,39 zł |
Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map
ISBN: 9780804749633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The "Vinland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since--in controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of historical and cartographical riddles. Maps, Myths, and Men is the first work to address the full range of this debate. Focusing closely on what the map in fact shows, the book contains a critique of the 1965 work The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; scrutinizes the marketing strategies used in 1957; and covers many aspects of the...
The "Vinland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since--in controversies rang...
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152,15 zł |
Historical Atlas of Washington
ISBN: 9780806121086 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 77 maps and accompanying texts, this atlas presents the history of Washington state from prehistoric times to the present, Beginning with Washington's terrain climate, vegetation, and hydrography, it then displays and records the evolution of both Indian and white settlements, the development of the state's modern economy, and the progress of society and culture from Indian times to the present. Some of the maps in the atlas cover major historical events or specific periods; other show present-day patterns of activity and deal with the historical background in the accompanying... In 77 maps and accompanying texts, this atlas presents the history of Washington state from prehistoric times to the present, Beginning with Washin... |
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188,57 zł |
Historical Atlas of the American West
ISBN: 9780806124568 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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117,15 zł |
Historical Atlas of Kansas, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780806124858 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This second edition of Historical "Atlas of Kansas" has been updated from 1984 states-federal estimates. New and revised maps show the important growth in population centers in all parts of the state and the changes in congressional and judicial districts, railroads, airline routes, employment, petroleum and groundwater, agriculture, and colleges and universities. The text accompanying these maps has been updated also. A proper knowledge of the long and eventful history of Kansas requires an understanding of the state s geography. While the place called Kansas was originally the home of... This second edition of Historical "Atlas of Kansas" has been updated from 1984 states-federal estimates. New and revised maps show the important gr... |
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147,61 zł |
Historical Atlas of Colorado
ISBN: 9780806125916 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This unique historical atlas will help you to comprehend quickly Colorado's geography and its fascinating past--from the prehistoric Indian cultures to the modern metropolises, from the Spanish and French explorers to the modern ski resorts. The full-page, clearly drawn maps and the lively text provide easy access to the essential information about the Highest State. Colorado's history has been played out on a spectacular landscape. The highest mountains of the continental divide cut the state in half with a two-mile-high barrier. This rocky obstacle long served as a tribal and... This unique historical atlas will help you to comprehend quickly Colorado's geography and its fascinating past--from the prehistoric Indian culture... |
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140,60 zł |
Historical Atlas of Central America
ISBN: 9780806130385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Central America has been a region of global importance since it was first explored by the Spanish early in the sixteenth century. Yet this mosaic of seven states, extending from Guatemala and Belize to Panama, remains one of the least known regions of Latin America. Drawing on more than fifty combined years of research and teaching in Central America, Carolyn Hall and Hector Perez Brignoli provide a new interpretation and an innovative synthesis of the region's history and culture in the Historical Atlas of Central America. The first two sections of the atlas review five centuries... Central America has been a region of global importance since it was first explored by the Spanish early in the sixteenth century. Yet this mosaic o... |
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211,03 zł |
The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity
ISBN: 9780807856727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.
Drawing on historical... The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. ...
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205,40 zł |
Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya
ISBN: 9780813123882 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Himalaya are world-renowned for their exquisite mountain scenery, ancient traditions, and diverse ethnic groups that tenaciously inhabit this harsh yet sublime landscape. Home to the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and some of its deepest gorges, the region is a trove of biological and cultural diversity. Providing a panoramic overview of contemporary land and life in the Earth's highest mountains, the Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya is the first full-color, comprehensive atlas of the geography, economics, politics, and culture of this spectacular area. Drawing from... The Himalaya are world-renowned for their exquisite mountain scenery, ancient traditions, and diverse ethnic groups that tenaciously inhabit this h... |
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277,95 zł |
Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity
ISBN: 9780813530734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape. They reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the acquisition of territories. Cartographic Fictions looks at maps in relation to journals, correspondence, advertisements, and novels by authors such as Joseph Conrad and Michael Ondaatje. In her innovative study, Karen Piper follows the history of cartography through three stages: the establishment of the prime meridian, the development of aerial photography, and the emergence of satellite and computer mapping.Piper follows the cartographer's...
Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape. They reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the acquisi...
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159,56 zł |
Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600
ISBN: 9780815630234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In his latest work, John Rennie Short reveals how the spatial discourses of the sixteenth century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way the world was represented. The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the globe navigated, and the land surveyed. Spatial practices were codified, a spatial sensitivity was created and a cartographic literacy was established in the increasing use of maps and the creation of a cartographic language for new mappings of the world, state, and city. Short establishes that such spatial revisioning is connected to the...
In his latest work, John Rennie Short reveals how the spatial discourses of the sixteenth century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way ...
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118,92 zł |