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  • TERRITORIAL IMAGINARIES
    KÄREN WIGEN
    Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions.   This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and political sovereignty, whether past or present. For Territorial Imaginaries, editor Kären Wigen has assembled an impressive slate of experts, spanning disciplines from political s...

    $786.34

  • TIME IN MAPS
    KÄREN WIGEN / CAROLINE WINTERER
    Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have de...

    $838.77

  • CARTOGRAPHIC JAPAN
    KÄREN WIGEN, SUGIMOTO FUMIKO, CARY KARACAS
    Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old castle plans and village cadasters. Pioneering surveyors are featured in popular television shows, and avid collectors cov...

    $838.77