A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World

by John Pickles

This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live.
Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography, the book draws on examples of the use of maps from the sixteenth century to the present, including their role in projects of the national and colonial state, emergent capitalism and the planetary consciousness of the natural sciences. It also considers the use of maps for military purposes, maps that have coded modern conceptions of health, disease and social character, and maps of the transparent human body and the transparent earth.

Genres: Geography

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 9, 2003

About the author

John Pickles is Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.

Reviews

[Lomme]

Pickles ate with this one! I don’t 100% agree with the way he has laid out everything, some of his arguments are a bit flawed, but in general I’m a fan of this work! It’s comprehensive and interesting

[Sinan Cetin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Berbat bir çeviri, Türkçe versiyonunu okuduğum için pişmanlık...

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although cartography is not one of my favourite subjects, Pickles presents an interesting argument about how to view mapping in the context of history.