ISBN:
9780192511225
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (314 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tyack, Geoffrey The Making of Our Urban Landscape
DDC:
307.760941
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Stadtplanung
;
Städtebau
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Städtebau
;
Stadtplanung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Figures, and Maps -- List of Plates -- List of Abbreviations -- Archives -- Structures of Archival Holdings -- Notes on the Text -- Dates -- Translations, Transliterations, and Spelling -- Names -- Introduction -- Thinking Geographically about Nationhood -- The Baltic Provinces and their Inhabitants -- Situating the Baltic in Russian Imperial and European History -- Approaches to Map Production: Social Experiences, Sites, Entrepreneurship, and Reception -- Maps and their Sources -- Scope and Structure -- 1: Networks of Cartographic Influence, Patronage, and Reception -- Peter von Köppen's Horizons of Experience -- Forging a Social Network of European Mapmakers -- Follow the Money: Financing Köppen's Ethnographic Atlas and Maps -- Empty Spaces and Ethnic Enclaves: Mapping Finno-Ugricand Baltic Peoples -- Köppen's Readers: Places of Cartographic Reception -- Conclusion -- 2: Map Production in the Provinces and the Rise of Cartographic Entrepreneurship -- Administrative Cartography in the Provinces -- Procedures for Gathering Ethnographic Statistics -- Triangulating Religion, Language, and Nationality -- Printing and Publishing Ethnographic Maps -- Logistical and Social Dimensions of Map Production -- Conclusion -- 3: The Baltic Question in Cartographic Imagination -- The Origins of the Baltic Question -- Baltic Russians and Baltic Orthodoxy: Mapping Minorities as a Strategy of Imperial Legitimation -- Choropleth Mapping: Debating National Domains and Attributes -- The 'Phantom Borders' of the Polish-LithuanianCommonwealth -- Zooming In: Urban Multiculturalism and Social Cartography -- Conclusion -- 4: Mapping Latvians in Local and Global Perspectives
Description / Table of Contents:
Learned Societies and Visions of the Baltic Heimat -- August Bielenstein: Pastor, Lettophile, Mapmaker -- From Ethnographic to Linguistic Mapping -- Map Production in the Home and Family -- Popular Cartographic Print Culture and Map Literacy -- The Commodification оf Cartography: Selling Maps to Latvian Readers -- Matīss Siliņš's Idea of Latvia -- From Siberia to Brazil: Locating Latvian Migrants, Colonies, and Diasporas -- Conclusion -- 5: Post-War Ethnic Boundary-Mapping from Above and Below -- Occupation, Population Displacement, and Administrative Restructuring -- Uncertain Futures: Cartographic Propaganda for Estonian and Latvian Independence -- The Estonian-LatvianBoundary Commission -- British Intervention in the Border Arbitration -- Zooming in: Estonian Valga and Latvian Valka -- Public Participation in the Boundary Discussion -- Counter-Mapping -- Tallent's Boundary Line -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Afterlives of Maps -- Bibliography -- Archives and Libraries -- Maps (Excluding Works Listed in Figures and Plates) -- Newspapers and Periodicals (Only Multiple References) -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
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