Maps and History in South-West England

Informationen zum Autor Roger Kain is Montefiore Professor of Geography in the University of Exeter, a Fellow of the British Academy and one of its Vice-Presidents. He has been honoured with medals and prizes from The Royal Geographical Society, The Newberry Library Chicago, the Library Association. Klappentext This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used! the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. It is accompanied by 43 pages of maps and illustrations. Zusammenfassung This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used! the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. It is accompanied by 43 pages of maps and illustrations.

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• Authors: A. J. Barker, Katherine Barker, Katherine Kain Barker, BARKER KATHERINE KAIN ROGER J P, Prof. Roger Barker Kain, Roger Kain, Roger Barker Kain
• Assisted by: Katherine Barker (Editor), Prof. Roger Kain (Editor), Roger Kain (Editor), Roger J. P. Kain (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Exeter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1991
• EAN: 9780859893732
• ISBN: 978-0-85989-373-2
• No. of pages: 159
• Series: Exeter studies in history
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous