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Mapping Jews: Cartography And Topography In Rome's Ghetto, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.
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.
'The Topography Of Golgotha': Digitization Of Maps And Aerial Photography Of World War I, Cathy Moulder
'The Topography Of Golgotha': Digitization Of Maps And Aerial Photography Of World War I, Cathy Moulder
Cathy Moulder
An excellent collection of World War I military maps and air photos has been digitized and made available on the Internet as McMaster University Library's first major digitization project. This paper describes the collection and the steps to this achievement, including reflections on the advantages and disadvantages of out-sourcing the creation of digital images.
Hiding Borders, Skewing Perspectives And Reversing Time: Possibilities For A New Generation Of Historical Atlases, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb
Hiding Borders, Skewing Perspectives And Reversing Time: Possibilities For A New Generation Of Historical Atlases, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
New computer graphics technology puts the power to create maps into the hanmds of working historians, The result will be a much richer array of imaginations of the geographical past than was once possible.