After the map : cartography, navigation, and the transformation of territory in the twentieth century / William Rankin.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rankin, William, 1978- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Cartography > History.
Navigation > History.
Global Positioning System > History.
Electronics in navigation > History.
Maps > Political aspects.
Cartography > Methodology.
Grids (Cartography)
Universal transverse Mercator projection (Cartography)
Physical Description:vii, 398 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.