Selected Books about Understanding Atlases and Maps
Encyclopedias, Atlases & Dictionaries - Marion Sader, Amy Lewis, editors ; Charles A. Bunge ... [et al.], consultants
Call Number: MEMORIAL LEVEL 1 AE1 .E48 1995
This new reference provides a strong resource for evaluation of almost 200 general encyclopedias and dictionaries currently in print in this country. Librarians and patrons receive statistics on each title, highlights of special features, and coverage of references in both print and electronic forms. -- Midwest Book Review
From sea charts to satellite images : interpreting North American history through maps - Edited by David Buisseret
Call Number: MEMORIAL LEVEL 2 E179 .F84 1990
A manual on how to use maps in teaching that includes a history of American mapping. Commentaries are accompanied by stimulating new ideas, for instance on how to use bird's-eye views and country atlases in the classroom, and there are didactic discussions on maps showing the walking city and the impact of the street car.
Mapping the world : an illustrated history of cartography - edited by Ralph E. Ehrenberg
Call Number: MEMORIAL LEVEL 3 GA201 .M365 2006
"This book highlights more than a hundred maps from every era and every part of the world. Organized chronologically, they display an astonishing variety of cartographic styles and techniques. They range from priceless artistic masterworks like the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, the first to use the name "America," to such practical artifacts as a Polynesian stick chart, a creation of bent twigs, seashells, and coconut palms that was nevertheless capable of guiding an outrigger canoe safely across thousands of miles of trackless and seemingly endless ocean. Some, like the portolans, or sea charts, of the Age of Discovery, were closely guarded state secrets that shaped the rise and fall of empires; others circulated widely and showed such fabled routes as the Silk Road across western Asia and the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails that opened up the American West."
Maps and map-making in local history - Jacinta Prunty
Call Number: MEMORIAL LEVEL 3 GA826 .P78 2004
"This book aims to introduce the local history practitioner to the world of maps - the special character (and appeal) of maps as an historical source, why they are invaluable in local history research, and questions that must be asked of them. The historical background to map creation in Ireland is outlined, with details on the major classes of cartographic and associated material and the repositories wherein they may be found" "A section on essential map-reading skills, including matters of scale, representation and accuracy, helps the researcher to explore this coded world. Step-by-step guidance for starting out to locate maps relevant to one's study area is provided. Case studies of working with maps in local history are offered as practical examples of what can be done, and guidelines for map-making are also included."
The Story of Maps - Lloyd A. Brown
Call Number: MEMORIAL LEVEL 3 GA201 .B76 1950
Early map making was characterized by secrecy. Maps were precious documents, drawn by astrologers and travelers, worn out through use or purposely destroyed. Just as men first mapped the earth indirectly, via the sun and stars, so must the history of maps be approahced circuitously, through chronicles, astronomy, Strabo and Ptolemy, seamanship, commerce, politics. From the first determinations of latitude 2000 years ago through the dramatic unraveling of longitude 1700 years later, the story of maps plots the course of civilization. "The Story of Maps, " first published thirty years ago, charts that course with a breadth and depth still unsurpassed in a scholarly survey.
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