David Buisseret
Autor/a de The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe
Sobre l'autor
David Buisseret is Garrett Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Obres de David Buisseret
From sea charts to satellite images : interpreting North American history through maps (1990) 31 exemplars
Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe (The Kenneth… (1992) 22 exemplars
Mapping the French Empire in North America: An interpretive guide to the exhibition mounted at the Newberry Library on… (1991) 8 exemplars
Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of… (1988) 8 exemplars
Envisioning the City: Six Studies in Urban Cartography (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of… (1998) 8 exemplars
European Mapping of the New World: Facsimile Images at The University of Texas at Arlington 2 exemplars
Elk Grove Village & Township (Mapping the metropolis : a community history using old maps and aerial photographs) (1996) 2 exemplars
Skokie : a community history using old maps 1 exemplars
Maptalk, 450 BC–2017 1 exemplars
The fortifications of Kingston, 1655-1914 1 exemplars
Mapping the French Empire in North America 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (Ancient World: Comparative Histories) (2010) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
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A Cartographic History of Arlington and the… de David Buisseret
A nifty and short introduction by a master cartographic historian offering a brief overview of maps of the "Metroplex." If you live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, or you like maps, you'll enjoy this book. Each map, from Pineda's 1519 chart of the Gulf Coast to a 2004 road atlas, is shown or shown in detail, along with a black and white sketch map to clarify the way the Metroplex fits into the region.
Great for browsing. Good subject headings.
Dr. Buisseret has written a stunning and visually exciting book. It is useful as a primer to the history of cartography and Buisseret delights in providing the very latest in cartographic theory and hints at possible avenues of further research. The book is well-documented and illustrated with scores of grayscale images and a dozen color plates. The only drawback of this edition was its small size and awkward shape. Other editions seem to have corrected this error. The size made the larger maps too cluttered and claustrophobia set in, however, many of the smaller maps and woodcuts showed up wonderfully. A bit dry in places, but an excellent foray into cartographic history.… (més)
A wonderful collection of lectures from the Webb Lectures at the University of Texas at Arlington on creolization in the Americas. Some of the essays are quite good and make you think in new ways about the subject. A must read.
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- Obres
- 27
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 286
- Popularitat
- #81,618
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 37
- Llengües
- 3