Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past

by Jeremy Black

Book Overview

Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past that is invaluable to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal what historians and educators of those periods thought important to include or omit. This book--the first comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the historical atlas--explores the role, development, and nature of this important reference and discusses its impact...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300086938
• ISBN13: 9780300086935
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"