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001 2005014228
003 DLC
005 20050916114503.0
008 050516s2006 ilu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005014228
020 $a0226389537 (cloth : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hfre
042 $apcc
050 00 $aGA201$b.J3313 2006
082 00 $a526$222
100 1 $aJacob, Christian,$d1955-
240 10 $aEmpire des cartes.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe sovereign map :$btheoretical approaches in cartography throughout history /$cChristian Jacob ; translated by Tom Conley ; edited by Edward H. Dahl.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2006.
263 $a0601
300 $ap. cm.
500 $a"Originally published as L'empire des cartes: Approche théorique de la cartographie à travers histoire, Éditions Albin Michel, 1992"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWhat is a map? -- There are maps, and there are maps -- The map as mediation -- The raw materials of the map -- The printed map -- The atlas: a book of maps -- Pragmatics of the consultation of the map -- Tentative definitions -- Graphics, geometry, and figuration -- The border and graphic representation -- The framework and the Marteloio -- Forms and contours of the Earth -- Order/disorder: the minimal units of graphics -- "Hic sunt leones" -- The visible and reason -- Maps and writing -- The title of the map -- Names on the map: toponymy -- The map and its legends -- The cartographic image: the eye and memory -- Imaginary maps: a poetics of the drawing and the gaze -- Cartographic reading as construction -- Imaginary drifts -- From the map to geography: stages of an apprenticeship.
650 0 $aCartography$xHistory.
700 1 $aDahl, Edward H.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005014228.html