Marjo Nurminen
Auteur de The Mapmakers' World: A Cultural History of the European World Map
Œuvres de Marjo Nurminen
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 17
- Popularité
- #654,391
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
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- 3
- Langues
- 1
The Mapmakers’ World is interesting, lucidly written, and elegantly illustrated with maps and images. As a refresher on the European map and its cultural meaning from the medieval to the modern era, it is grand. The illustrations are superb; Nurminen and her team have chosen many great exemplars from a number of archives. As a showpiece and a general history it is an excellent, scholarly secondary source. A comprehensive bibliography, divided by chapter, a list of images, and index round out the text. The Mapmakers’ World might serve well as a general introduction for an undergraduate cartography course, but graduate students would be better served by directly accessing the work of the scholars in the bibliography. Scholars of cartography and exploration have trod this ground before, but they would still enjoy the text and presentation.… (plus d'informations)