Humanities & Social Sciences

Time in Maps

From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

by Wigen, Kären

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The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools that can readily show change over time in space. But long before such software became available, mapmakers regularly represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in supposedly static maps, and even those maps presented as a historical snapshot illustrate the centrality of time to what we think of as primarily a spatial medium. In this collection, an array of today’s leading scholars consider how mapmakers in a variety of contexts depicted time in their creations—from Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book includes a theoretical salvo and defense of traditional paper maps by William Rankin—himself a distinguished digital mapmaker—and includes more than 100 maps and related visuals, all in full color.

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Author Biography

Kären Wigen is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University. Caroline Winterer is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University.

The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Founded in 1890, the University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States, publishing a distinguished list in Science, Economics, Philosophy, Anthropology, Reference, Sociology, History, Art, and Literary criticism, as well as translations of classic and contemporary works. Publisher of The Chicago Manual of Style, classic works by Kuhn, Friedman, Arendt, Strauss, and Maclean.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication Date November 2020
  • Orginal LanguageAll
  • ISBN/Identifier 9780226718590
  • FormatHardback
  • Pages272
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Illustration25 color plates, 80 maps

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