Mapping mountains /

Mapping mountains / / Ernesto Capello.

Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mappi...

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Superior document:Map History
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Capello, Ernesto,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Map history (Brill Academic Publishers)
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mapping Mountains
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Traditional Historiography and its Challengers
  • 1.1 Just What is a Mountain Anyway?
  • 1.2 Traditional Historiography
  • 1.3 Challenging Traditional Historiography
  • 1.4 A Rather Brief Overview of Contemporary Cartographic Relief Presentation
  • 2 Paradise and Pilgrimage
  • 3 Colonial and Postcolonial Peaks
  • 4 Profiles and Panoramas
  • 5 Touristed Itineraries
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Acknowledgements.

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