Time in maps: from the age of discovery to our digital era from the age of discovery to our digital era

Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, __Time in Maps__ shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, __Time in Maps__ will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history. "The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools that can readily show change over time in space. But long before such software became available, mapmakers regularly represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in supposedly static maps, and even those maps presented as historical snapshot illustrate the centrality of time to what we think of as primarily a spatial medium. In this collection, an array of today's leading scholars consider how mapmakers in a variety of contexts depicted time in their creations--from Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book includes a theoretical salvo and defense of traditional paper maps by William Rankin--himself a distinguished digital mapmaker--and includes more than 100 maps and related visuals, all in full color"-- Provided by publisher Contents Foreword by Abby Smith Rumsey Acknowledgments Introduction: Maps Tell Time | Caroline Winterer and Kären Wigen 1. Mapping Time in the Twentieth (and Twenty-First) Century | William Rankin Part I: Pacific Asia 2. Orienting the Past in Early Modern Japan | Kären Wigen 3. Jesuit Maps in China and Korea: Connecting the Past to the Present | Richard A. Pegg Part II: The Atlantic World 4. History in Maps from the Aztec Empire | Barbara E. Mundy 5. Lifting the Veil of Time: Maps, Metaphor, and Antiquarianism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | Veronica Della Dora 6. A Map of Language | Daniel Rosenberg Part III: The United States 7. The First American Maps of Deep Time | Caroline Winterer 8. How Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States | Susan Schulten 9. Time, Travel, and Mapping the Landscapes of War | James R. Akerman Contributors Index