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Welcome to HIS389 LEC 0601 “Maps and History”

Who Doesn’t Love maps?

  • but what are they for?

Hanover

https://www.bytwerk.com/gpa/images/vb/vb-atlas-hannover.jpg

Also London

https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/000/276/27636.jpg

London

https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/images/tube-map.gif

Paris

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Mark_Twain%27s_Map_of_Paris%2C_1870_%28flipped%29_-_Cornell_University_Library.jpg

Mountain?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich_-_Ideen_zu_einer_Geographie_der_Pflanzen_nebst_einem_Naturgem%C3%A4lde_der_Tropenl%C3%A4nder_-_000012142.jpg

Knowledge?

http://philosophy.talons43.ca/files/2016/06/New-Mind-Map_5c9bm4ud-2.jpg

So, what is a map?

I’m not giving this away today! But:

  • representational (probably)
  • spatial (usually)
  • instrumental
  • argumentative (always, even when it’s invisible)
  • legible under culturally-specific conditions

What does this course do?

  • Double Vision
    • maps as cultural objects (i.e., primary sources)
    • maps as tools for arguing (i.e., methods)
  • History of Maps, but also
  • Maps for History

Let’s go over those maps!

Basic Course Outline: Historical Topics

  • Medieval Maps
  • Origins of Cartography (esp, in science & medicine)
  • Maps and Empire
  • Maps, Race, and Nation

Basic Course Outline: Historical THEMES

  • Knowledge and Power
  • Oppression and Resistance
  • Meaning and Representation

Basic Course Outline: Technical Skills

  • This is not a technical course! But:
  • need to be willing to try
  • Technical elements of assignments will be relatively easy, well-explained, and accessible
  • But the more technically-adept you are, the better you wil lbe at your craft

Assignments!

There are lots

  • 1 straight-up short paper
  • 1 mixed paper/map modification
  • 1 Pass/Fail technical assignment
  • Big final project & presentation

Participation

  • show up (obvs)
  • participate actively!
  • paragraphs

Questions?

  • No? Then I’ll see you on Thursday!

Topic 1

testing out the overview

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some stuff

another stuff

Topic 2