Map Men - Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe

ENG
More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In Map Men, Steven Seegel takes us through some of these historical dramas with a detailed look at the maps that made and unmade the world of East Central Europe.

RUS
Географические карты - это не просто яркие картинки или сухие топологические визуализации. Зачастую это глубоко эмоциональные истории: о неудачных политических проектах, не сложившихся отношениях и исчезнувших странах. В своей книге Стивен Сигел проводит нас через такие исторических драмы, подробно рассматривая карты, показывающие реальный и воображаемый мир Восточно-Централ&

About the author

Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire, published by University of Chicago Press, and Ukraine under Western Eyes.

Product details

• Authors: Seegel Steven
• Assisted by: Lazutkina Olga (Translation), Troitskyi Sergei (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: Russian
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2024
• EAN: 9798887196268
• ISBN: 979-8-88719-626-8
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Contemporary European Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / General, Historical maps & atlases, REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps, Maps, European history, cartography, East Central Europe