Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616890584 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Brilliant topic utterly ruined by too-small images" according to Dr Garry. I have to agree with the reviewer J. Coates. This book should be a five star just for the originality of the subject matter, and the author's excellent coverage. But the publisher has defeated the author's intention, which is to display the rich history of timelines.I will give you just one example from many. On page 1Brilliant topic utterly ruined by too-small images Dr Garry I have to agree with the reviewer J. Coates. This book should be a five star just for the originality of the subject matter, and the author's excellent coverage. But the publisher has defeated the author's intention, which is to display the rich history of timelines.I will give you just one example from many. On page 143, the book shows t. Brilliant topic utterly ruined by too-small images I have to agree with the reviewer J. Coates. This book should be a five star just for the originality of the subject matter, and the author's excellent coverage. But the publisher has defeated the author's intention, which is to display the rich history of timelines.I will give you just one example from many. On page 1Brilliant topic utterly ruined by too-small images Dr Garry I have to agree with the reviewer J. Coates. This book should be a five star just for the originality of the subject matter, and the author's excellent coverage. But the publisher has defeated the author's intention, which is to display the rich history of timelines.I will give you just one example from many. On page 143, the book shows t. 3, the book shows t. , the book shows t. Warning: most illustrations are not in focus It is with much regret that I must report that an otherwise excellent book has a major production flaw.As far as I can tell, it appears that the author's provided scanned images of many ancient documents to the designer at Princeton Architectural Press. The layout and type is all excellent. But, it looks like the majority of images were n. "Excellent Book on the History of Graphically-Organised Time." according to Graehound. This is an excellent book that goes over the recordance of history before our relatively contemporary reliance on the timeline. A fascinating visual study of how humans organise time and space with excellent annotation for further research. I highly recommend reading this book--both as a reference and a leisure read.
"Not all maps get us from A to Z; many chart decades of progress and centuries of change. This is a lavish guide to what makes us human, a sprawling, predominantly hand-drawn collection of infographics showing lyrical and linear ways to mark everything from the development of biblical thought to the spread of empires and the mapping of human sensation. Joseph Priestley's timelines of history and biography anchor themselves firmly in the middle." -- The Guardian (UK)
The authors, both accomplished writers and historians, sketch the shifting field of graphic representations of history from the beginning of the print age through the present. In addition to telling a rich, forgotten story, this book serves as a kind of grammar of historical representation, uncovering the ways in which time has been structured in thought and in images, in the Western tradition. Now in Paperback! What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. They shed light on western views of history and on the complex relationship between general ideas about the course of events and the technical efforts to record and connect dates and names in the past. Written for both the academically curious and the general reader, Cartographies of Time provides a set of tools for understanding the evolution and the significance of graphic representations of time both in history and in contemporary culture.
Daniel Rosenberg is associate professor of history at the University of Oregon. He has published widely on history, theory, and art, and his work appears frequently in Cabinet magazine, where he is editor-at-large. . He has written a number of books on European history, including Defenders of the Text, The Footnote, and What Wa