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Mapping Narrations, Narrating Maps: Concepts Of The World In The Middle Ages And The Early Modern Period, Ingrid Baumgartner, Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, Phillip Landgrebe

Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

This volume offers the author's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration and the production of Portolan atlases.

Undersea Cables: The Ultimate Geopolitical Chokepoint, Bert Chapman

FORCES Initiative: Strategy, Security, and Social Systems

This work provides historical and contemporary overviews of this critical geopolitical problem, describes the policy actors addressing this in the U.S. and selected other countries, and provides maps and information on many undersea cable work routes. These cables are chokepoints with one dictionary defining chokepoints as “a strategic narrow route providing passage through or to another region."

Female Cartographers: Historical Obstacles And Successes, Eva Llamas-Owens

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

For much of history, women have lived in male-dominated societies, which has limited their participation in society. The field of cartography has been largely populated by men, but despite cultural obstacles, there are records of women significantly contributing over the past 1,000 years. Historically, women have faced coverture, stereotypes, lack of opportunities, and lack of recognition for their accomplishments. Their involvement in cartography is often a result of education or valuable experiences, availability of resources, a supportive community or mentor, hard work, and luck regardless of when and where they lived.

This research divides women before and after the turn …

A History Of The Participatory Map, Jo Guldi

History Faculty Publications

This article tells, for the first time, the story of the history of the participatory map: that is, the many-to-many map-making techniques that most people are familiar with through smartphone apps and Google maps. Archival research in previously untapped archives traces the origins of participatory mapping in subaltern conversations around the world, its embrace in the modern academy and development circles, its place in the World Bank, and its conversion to online formats like Google Maps and Open Street Map. The story begins in surprising places, as international networks in the 1970s began experimenting with many-to-many mapping, their members spanning …

Diagnosing The Third World: The “Map Doctor” And The Spatialized Discourses Of Disease And Development In The Cold War, Timothy Barney

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

In the early 1950s, the American Geographical Society, in collaboration with the United States Armed Forces and international pharmaceutical corporations, instituted a Medical Geography program whose main initiative was the Atlas of Disease, a map series that documented the global spread of various afflictions such as polio, malaria, even starvation. The Atlas of Disease, through the stewardship of its director, Jacques May, a French-American physician trained in colonial Hanoi, evidenced the ways in which cartography was rhetorically appropriated in the Cold War as a powerful visual discourse of development and modernization, wherein both the data content of the maps and …

Norumbega News, No.17 (Fall 2013), Osher Library Associates

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Issue No.17, Fall 2013

Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Portland, Maine

Mapping Jews: Cartography And Topography In Rome's Ghetto, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

This paper examines how the Ghetto of Rome was represented in the many view-plans and maps of Rome from the 16th through 18th centuries, and how this mapping both tells us much about the physical appearance of the Ghetto and also how it was perceived by others in particular and presented to others more generally.

Norumbega News, No.16 (Spring 2012), Osher Library Associates

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Issue No.16, Spring 2012

Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Portland, Maine

Norumbega News, No.15 (Fall 2010), Osher Library Associates

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Issue No.15, Fall 2010

Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Portland, Maine

Norumbega News, No.14 (Spring 2010), Osher Library Associates

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Issue No.14, Spring 2010

Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Portland, Maine

The Moses Greenleaf Primer, Holly K. Hurd

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

A childrens "primer" on the life of Moses Greenleaf, Maine's first mapmaker.

Norumbega News, No.13 (Fall 2009), Osher Library Associates

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Issue No.13, Fall 2009

Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Portland, Maine

American Treasures (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

American Treasures (Exhibit Guide). October 18, 2009 to August 21, 2010

Maps offer such compelling insights into the past that anyone, regardless of age or educational level, can enjoy and learn from them. To celebrate OML's renovation and expansion, this exhibition explores the library’s rich and varied collections and its mission to preserve those collections and make them accessible.

Curated by Matthew Edney.

Norumbega News, No.12 (Spring 2009), Osher Library Associates

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Issue No.12, Spring 2009

Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education

Portland, Maine

Settling The Maine Wilderness - Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, And His Household Of Faith, 1777-1834, Walter M. Macdougall

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Settling the Maine Wilderness - Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, and His Household of Faith, 1777-1834.

Osher Library Associates, Occasional Publication No.3.

For professor Macdougall, this book is the culmination of over twenty-five years of research and writing carried out during breaks from teaching at the University of Maine. By examining the cultural milieu of his time, he places Greenleaf's contributions within the context of Maine's growth and development during its formative years from province to statehood. This biographer also shares a kinship with Greenleaf on several counts. First is an appreciation for the land which Greenleaf held dear, since his …

Settling The Maine Wilderness (Poster), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

Poster advertising the publication of:

Settling the Maine Wilderness - Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, and His Household of Faith, 1777-1834 by Walter M. Macdougall. Osher Library Associates, Occasional Publication No.3 (2006).

Poster features a reproduction of "Map of the State of Maine from the Latest and Best Authorities" (M. Greenleaf, Portland, 1820).

Ichc 2003 - 20th International Conference On The History Of Cartography (Program, Abstracts, And List Of Participants), International Conference On The History Of Cartography

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

ICHC 2003 - 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography (Program, Abstracts, and List of Participants). 15-20 June 2003.

Hosted by Harvard Map Collection, Harvard University, and the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. Text in English and French.

Since 1964, the biennial International Conferences on the History of Cartography have been the leading academic conferences in the field. They have been held in: London (1964 and 1967), Brussels (1969), Edinburgh (1971), Warsaw (1973), Greenwich (1975), Washington DC (1977), Berlin (1979), Pisa-Florence-Rome (1981), Dublin (1983), Ottawa (1985), Paris (1987), Amsterdam (1989), Uppsala-Stockholm …

Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology To Satellite Imagery, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs

Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery.

April 4, 2000 to January 11, 2001

The charts in this exhibition explore how mariners have distinguished one piece of water from any other, by determining what phenomena can be delineated across the vast, trackless ocean and by developing notations to express those phenomena.

Exodus And Exile: The Spaces Of Diaspora (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

Exodus and Exile: The Spaces of Diaspora.

January 22, 2002 to January 5, 2003

Maps from the sixteenth century to the present can be used to explore different spatial aspects of diaspora ~ considered generally ~ through the experiences of Jews and African-Americans.

Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology To Satellite Imagery (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery. April 4, 2000 to January 11, 2001

The charts in this exhibition explore how mariners have distinguished one piece of water from any other, by determining what phenomena can be delineated across the vast, trackless ocean and by developing notations to express those phenomena.

Celebrating The Portuguese Communities In America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide).

February 23, 1999 - May 8, 1999

Although numerous countries and individuals were involved in the exploration and mapping of the Americas, it was the Portuguese who set the stage during the fifteenth century for the ensuing discoveries in the New World. Portuguese-born and sponsored explorers played a significant role, especially in charting a route around the southern tip of South America; in exploring and exploiting the waters bordering the northeast coast of North America; and in exploring the Pacific Coast of North America.

Maps Of Spain From The Enggass Collection, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs

Maps of Spain from the Enggass Collection.

September 2, 1998 to October 6, 1999

An exhibition tracing the cartographic evolution of Iberia through a series of maps, from 1486 through 1829, donated by Dr. Peter M. Enggass, professor emeritus of Geography and Geology, Mt. Holyoke College.

Celebrating The Portuguese Communities In America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide), Library Of Congress And The Embassy Of Portugal

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective.

June 10 - November 29, 1997

Although numerous countries and individuals were involved in the exploration and mapping of the Americas, it was the Portuguese who set the stage during the fifteenth century for the ensuing discoveries in the New World. Portuguese-born and sponsored explorers played a significant role, especially in charting a route around the southern tip of South America; in exploring and exploiting the waters bordering the northeast coast of North America; and in exploring the Pacific Coast of North America, particularly the area that today is the state …

Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia Of History, Osher Map Library

Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs

Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of History. April 17, 1996 to October 5, 1996

Sacred to Jews, Christians, and Moslems, the city has inspired a prodigious outpouring of prose and poetry, artistic renderings, and, of course, maps. This exhibition offers a selection of maps and views to celebrate the 3000th anniversary of Jerusalem's establishment as the capital of King David's unified Kingdom of Israel.

Jerusalem - Three Millennia Of History (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

Jerusalem Three Millennia of History. Exhibit Guide to Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of History.

April 17, 1996 to October 5, 1996

Sacred to Jews, Christians, and Moslems, the city has inspired a prodigious outpouring of prose and poetry, artistic renderings, and, of course, maps. This exhibition offers a selection of maps and views to celebrate the 3000th anniversary of Jerusalem's establishment as the capital of King David's unified Kingdom of Israel.

Maine 175 - A Celebration Of 175 Years Of Maine Statehood, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs

Maine 175 - A Celebration of 175 Years of Maine Statehood.

September 5, 1995 - January 28, 1996

This exhibition is designed to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Maine statehood using maps and other artifacts.

Maps and their creators have played an important role in the history of Maine from the time of the first visits by European mariners to the present. Explorers and mapmakers struggled first to take the measure of the land and then used maps to take possession of it. French and English officials put forward conflicting claims to Maine in the form of maps, as did …

The Land Of Norumbega - Maine In The Age Of Exploration And Settlement, Maine Humanities Council

Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs

The Land of Norumbega - Maine in the Age of Exploration and Settlement.

An Exhibition by Susan Danforth, Maine Humanities Council, Portland, Maine 1988.

This exhibition began in 1986, when the University of Southern Maine received an extraordinary collection of rare maps, atlases, and globes donated by Lawrence M.C. and Eleanor Houston Smith. In 1987, in response to a call from the National Endowment for the Humanities for programs relating to the Columbian Quincentenary, the Maine Humanities Council submitted a proposal for the "Land of Norumbega" project.

Maps, Globes, Atlases And Geographies Through The Year 1800 - The Eleanor Houston And Lawrence M.C. Smith Cartographic Collection At The Smith Cartographic Center, University Of Southern Maine, James E. Mooney

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through the Year 1800 - The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M.C. Smith Cartographic Collection at the Smith Cartographic Center, University of Southern Maine.

Catalogued by by James E. Mooney with Foreword by Kenneth Nebenzahl, Introduction by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith.

Ua3/3/1 General Area Map - Jonesville Project Area - Scheme 1, Scruggs & Hammond

WKU Archives Records

General Area Map, Jonesville Project Area, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Scheme I, scale 1" = 800" by Scruggs & Hammond of Lexington, Kentucky, nd, 1 sheet, 11 1/2" x 12". The map is oriented looking northward. The boundaries are the L&N railroad on the northeast, 14th Street on the North, US31W By-pass on the west and Maryland & Woodland Streets on the south.

The map was filed with documents dating from 1961-1965. The agreement allowing WKU's acquisition of the Jonesville property is dated 1963.

Ua3/3/1 Unnamed Map Of Wku & Jonesville Property, Unknown

WKU Archives Records

Unnamed map by unknown cartographer of Western Kentucky University and Jonesville property to be acquired through urban renewal, 1 sheet, 22" x 15". Legend includes existing and proposed buildings and proposed streets. The map is oriented to the southwest. The boundaries are 14th Street on the northeast, Chestnut & State Street and Normal Drive on the east, University Drive on the southwest, the L&N railroad on the north and US68 on the northwest.

The map was filed with documents dating from 1961-1965. The agreement allowing WKU's acquisition of the Jonesville property is dated 1963.