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Apollo's eye : a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the western imagination / Denis Cosgrove
Bib ID 2598047
Format BookBook
Author
Cosgrove, Denis E
 
Description Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001. 
xiii, 331 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0801864917 (alk. paper) 
Summary

"In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity." "Cosgrove's analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the richly complex cosmographic tradition out of which today's geographical imagination has emerged."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents 1. Imperial and Poetic Globe -- 2. Classical Globe -- 3. Christian Globe -- 4. Oceanic Globe -- 5. Visionary Globe -- 6. Emblematic Globe -- 7. Enlightened Globe -- 8. Modern Globe -- 9. Virtual Globe. 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-317) and index.

Subjects Geographical perception.  |  Globes.
Details Collect From
YY 910.9 C834 Main Reading Room (Overseas Monograph Collection)
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