Cartographic and Spatial Studies: Theory, Methods, and Practice
Contributors:
Dr. Helen Davies | Chris Rouse | Dr. Tobias Hrynick | Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee
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Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps. Second Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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Safier, Neil. “The Confines of the Colony: Boundaries, Ethnographic Landscapes, and Imperial Cartography in Iberoamerica.” In The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, edited by James R. Akerman, 133–83. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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———. Orientalism. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
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———. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.
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