After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century / William Rankin.
Rankin, William, 1978- author.
2016
GA102.3 .R36 2016eb
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Title After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century / William Rankin.
Author Rankin, William, 1978- author.
ISBN 9780226339535 (electronic book)
9780226339368
Published Chicago, [Illinois] ; London, [England] : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 398 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Call Number GA102.3 .R36 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 526.09/04
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Territory and the mapping sciences
I. The international map of the world and the logic of representation. 1. The authority of representation : a single map for all countries, 1891-1939 ; 2. Maps as tools : globalism, regionalism, and the erosion of universal cartography, 1940-1965
II. Cartographic grids and new territories of calculation. 3. Aiming guns, recording land, and stitching map to territory : the invention of cartographic grid systems, 1914-1939 ; 4. Territoriality without borders : global grids and the universal transverse Mercator, 1940-1965
III. Electronic navigation and territorial pointillism. 5. Inhabiting the grid : radionavigation and electronic coordinates, 1920-1965 ; 6. The politics of global coverage : the Navy, NASA, and GPS, 1960-2010
Conclusion: The politics in my pocket.

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