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A History of Britain in 100 Maps - Jeremy Black

A History of Britain in 100 Maps

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Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2022
British Library Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7123-5471-4 (ISBN)
CHF 92,85 inkl. MwSt
In A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black takes readers deep into the unparalleled collections of the British Library Map Room to tell a new story of the British Isles through acknowledged treasures and previously undiscovered and unpublished items.

Presenting in detail 100 important maps Black explores major themes in British history, from settlement, environmental change, state formation and ecclesiastical development to industrialisation, urbanisation, and modern socio-political developments. In doing so he also tells the story of how a rich mapmaking tradition developed from the medieval Mappa Mundi to the work of pioneering cartographers including Matthew Paris, John Speed and Christopher Saxton and on through institutions such as the Ordnance Survey and the A-Z Company. Cartographic records of the Civil War and Great Fire, or curiosities including Emil Reich's 'Map of British Genius', are contrasted with infographic maps of recent elections and the COVID-19 epidemic. The book also considers the growing field of fine and digital artists using delineated images of Britain as their subject matter.

Jeremy Black, internationally known military historian and Professor of History at the University of Exeter, is the author of The Cold War: A Military History, Rethinking World War Two: The Conflict and its Legacy and Metropolis, among many others. He is also a keen writer on maps and their history and is the author of the award-winning The History of the Second World War in 100 Maps (British Library 2020).

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 125+ Colour Illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 220 x 280 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-7123-5471-9 / 0712354719
ISBN-13 978-0-7123-5471-4 / 9780712354714
Zustand Neuware
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