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Book SynopsisIn this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.
Trade ReviewThe father of critical cartography, and therefore the idea that a map should be understood as more than just a set of directions, was J. B. Harley... The New Nature of Maps... display[s] great erudition. -- Nicholas Lemann New Yorker Harley was an iconoclast, subverting traditional approaches to map-making by drawing together art history, literature, philosophy and visual culture. It's a view that can now be savored in his collected essays, The New Nature of Maps. -- Nick Saunders New Scientist With supreme tact, sympathetic insight into Harley's personality and his own deft scholarship, Laxton has produced... a book worthy of Harley. -- Catherine Delano-Smith Nature Inlcuding Andrew's introduction... we have a debate within the volume, not only postmodernism and its critique, but also other examples of Harley's anit-positivist and anti-Eurocentric approach alongside a potent understanding of the processes and problems of map making. -- Jeremy Black Imago Mundi The 'new nature' of maps reflects the sea change in the discipline of the history of cartography that has occurred, to a remarkable degree instigated by Brian Harley. -- John Cloud Technology and Culture 2003
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Meaning, Knowledge, and Power in the Map Philosophy of J.B. Harley, by J. H. Andrews 1 Text and Contexts in the Interpretation of Early Maps 2 Maps, Knowledge, and Power 3 Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe 4 Power and Legitimation in the English Geographical Atlases of the Eighteenth Century 5 Deconstructing the Map New England Cartography and the Native Americans 7 Can There Be a Cartographic Ethics
