
Maps That Changed The World
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- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction by Professor Jeremy Black
- The Choice of Maps
- The Earliest Maps
- Ancient Clay Maps
- The Mapping of the Dream Time
- The Nazca Enigma
- Islamic Guardians of Knowledge
- Chinese Cartography
- The Nine Worlds of the Norsemen
- The Music of the Spheres
- Cartographic Breakthroughs
- Ptolemy
- The Peutinger Table
- Celestial Charts
- Saxton's Elizabethan England
- Edmond Halley
- Alexander von Humboldt
- A Single Map Creates a New Science
- Pathfinder of the Seas
- The Killer Cholera
- The City Panorama Map
- Booth's Poverty Map
- Harry Beck's Map
- Distorting to Reveal the City
- Surveying Venus
- Mapping the Tsunami
- Invisible Values, Invisible Lives
- The Age of Exploration
- Portolan Sea-Charts
- The Greatest Navigational Error in History
- Apian's Cosmographia
- The Fourth Part of the World
- Ortelius Brings the World to Book
- Kaerius
- The Blaeu Family
- Frederick de Wit
- John Smith and John White
- The First Accurate North American Maps
- The Chickasaw Map
- Japanese Isolationism
- Australia Becomes an Island Continent
- Lewis and Clark
- The Royal Navy 'Conquers' Antarctica
- Military Maps
- Da Vinci's New Viewpoint
- 'Make Me a Map of the Valley'
- The Battle of the Modder River
- Colenso
- Thiepval Sacrifice, 1916
- Passchendaele
- Plan D in Belgium
- Dunkirk
- Defences of Dover
- Omaha Beach
- Cold War Subversion
- Drawing the Line
- The Anglo-French Map Wars
- A Triumph of Trigonometry
- Africa after the Berlin Conference of 1884-85
- Transcontinental Railroad
- John F. Kennedy and Laos
- Maps of Israel
- Fantasies, Follies & Fabrications
- The Lost Continent of Atlantis
- King Arthur and the Isle of Avalon
- New France or Fake America?
- Utopia in Texas
- Mocking National Stereotypes
- Propaganda Maps
- Tolkien's Middle-Earth
- The Vinland Map
- Propaganda Projections
- The Pizzigano 'New World' Map
- Bibliography & Acknowledgements
- Index
- Picture Credits
- Copyright
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