John Cloud
Biographic Data
| ID | 1466888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Cloud |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Cloud |
| SIGNATURE | CLOUD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peace Studies Program, 130 Uris Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-7601, USA; fax: +1 607 254 5000 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mapping the Cold War
Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power. By Timothy Barney." Imago Mundi, 69(1), pp. 124–125
Globalizing Polar Science
Reviewed by: Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years John Cloud (bio) Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years. Edited by Roger D. Launius, James Rodger Fleming, and David H. Devorkin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xii+386. $30. Polar sciences grow in scope and importance in inverse relationship to glaciers and ice caps as they shrink. The frigi…
In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
Reviewed by: In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society John Cloud (bio) In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society. By Mark Carey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+273. $24.95. Melting and retreating glaciers are a critical motif in the science and contention of global climate change. For the most part glaciers are located distantly enough from human populations that their melt…
No Dig No Fly No Go
No Dig No Fly No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control. By Mark Monmonier." Imago Mundi, 63(2), pp. 236–237
Plotting the Globe
Reviewed by: Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line, and: Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection John Cloud (bio) Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line. By Avraham Ariel and Nora Ariel Berger . Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Pp. xii+235. $49.95. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projectio…
Discerning the Relation between American Science and American Democracy
Discerning the Relation between American Science and American Democracy:A. Hunter Dupree’s Science in the Federal Government John Cloud (bio) Gamblers the world over consider seven a lucky number. This Gregorian year of 2007 features a profusion of science-and-technology–related anniversaries strutting into view like sequined dancers on a Las Vegas runway. It is the three hundredth anniversary of the births of Carolus Linnaeus and Leonard Euler, …
Cultures in Orbit
Reviewed by: Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual John Cloud (bio) Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. By Lisa Parks. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+241. $22.95. Satellites are the farthest-flung portions of complex terrestrially based systems that structure so much of modern life. Analysis of their context and impact is quite difficult. But in Cultures in Orbit Lisa Parks presents an ambitious, stimul…
Cartographies of Disease
Reviewed by John Cloud Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine. By Tom Koch. Redlands, Calif.: ESRI Press, 2005. Pp. 389. $44.95. This book is an important contribution to the history of medical geog-raphy in general, and more particularly the evolution of nineteenth- and twentieth-century cartographic strategies to understand and combat the diseases of contagion, both very ancient and quite new. Tom Koch, a medical geographer and b…
The Long Arc of the Pathfinder
The Second World War was perhaps the most important event in the history of cartography; certainly more maps and charts were produced for that conflict than for any other episode of human history. This paper looks at the war and the hundreds of millions of maps produced for it from a distant vantage point: the singular perspective of a small hydrographic survey vessel alone in the Pacific Ocean. From 1942 to 1945, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey…
Historical Atlases
Reviewed by: Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570–1870 John Cloud (bio) Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570–1870. By Walter Goffart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii+603. $65. In the sixteenth century, European cartographer-publishers produced a profusion of new maps, and they also copied each other's maps. Eventually these were bound in compendia called atlases; the first is generally c…
The New Nature of Maps
This volume is a celebration of the intellectual impact of the late historian of cartography John Brian Harley, presented through a thoroughly annotated republication of seven of his later essays and a comprehensive bibliography of his writings, along with a useful introduction written by a former colleague. The title is that of the book Harley proposed to write next in 1991. Instead he died later that same year, at the age of fifty-nine. In lieu…
Special Guest-Edited Issue on the Earth Sciences in the Cold War
American Cartographic Transformations during the Cold War
A great convergence of cartography, secrecy, and power occurred during the Cold War. In the American case, a complex series of interactions between secret and classified programs and institutions and their publicly accessible counterparts accomplished both traditional and novel objectives of military geographic intelligence. This process also yielded the World Geodetic System, a masscentered “figure of the earth ” at accuracies adequate for warfa…
Imaging the World in a Barrel
The CORONA satellite reconnaissance programme (1958-72), the first American enterprise for secret photography from space, was predicated on fundamental progress within the strategic earth sciences necessary to resolve the Figure of the Earth with sufficient fidelity to wage or prevent nuclear war. CORONA in turn rapidly evolved from an interim reconnaissance system to a sophisticated series of earth remote-sensing imagery and data systems, which …
Crossing the Olentangy River
On the Origins of Analytical Cartography
This paper examines the development of analytical cartography and the contributions Waldo Tobler has made to it, starting well before his definition of the subject in 1976. Analytical cartography's roots in World War II and the Cold War are examined, and the influences and precedents for the academic course that Tobler described are discussed. The systems of knowledge production developed for analytical cartography in its social context are summa…
Imaging the World in a Barrel
The CORONA satellite reconnaissance programme (1958-72), the first American enterprise for secret photography from space, was predicated on fundamental progress within the strategic earth sciences necessary to resolve the Figure of the Earth with sufficient fidelity to wage or prevent nuclear war. CORONA in turn rapidly evolved from an interim reconnaissance system to a sophisticated series of earth remote-sensing imagery and data systems, which …
American Cartographic Transformations during the Cold War
A great convergence of cartography, secrecy, and power occurred during the Cold War. In the American case, a complex series of interactions between secret and classified programs and institutions and their publicly accessible counterparts accomplished both traditional and novel objectives of military geographic intelligence. This process also yielded the World Geodetic System, a masscentered “figure of the earth ” at accuracies adequate for warfa…
On the Origins of Analytical Cartography
This paper examines the development of analytical cartography and the contributions Waldo Tobler has made to it, starting well before his definition of the subject in 1976. Analytical cartography's roots in World War II and the Cold War are examined, and the influences and precedents for the academic course that Tobler described are discussed. The systems of knowledge production developed for analytical cartography in its social context are summa…
Special Guest-Edited Issue on the Earth Sciences in the Cold War
The Long Arc of the Pathfinder
The Second World War was perhaps the most important event in the history of cartography; certainly more maps and charts were produced for that conflict than for any other episode of human history. This paper looks at the war and the hundreds of millions of maps produced for it from a distant vantage point: the singular perspective of a small hydrographic survey vessel alone in the Pacific Ocean. From 1942 to 1945, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey…
Crossing the Olentangy River
On the Origins of Analytical Cartography
This paper examines the development of analytical cartography and the contributions Waldo Tobler has made to it, starting well before his definition of the subject in 1976. Analytical cartography's roots in World War II and the Cold War are examined, and the influences and precedents for the academic course that Tobler described are discussed. The systems of knowledge production developed for analytical cartography in its social context are summa…
Imaging the World in a Barrel
The CORONA satellite reconnaissance programme (1958-72), the first American enterprise for secret photography from space, was predicated on fundamental progress within the strategic earth sciences necessary to resolve the Figure of the Earth with sufficient fidelity to wage or prevent nuclear war. CORONA in turn rapidly evolved from an interim reconnaissance system to a sophisticated series of earth remote-sensing imagery and data systems, which …
American Cartographic Transformations during the Cold War
A great convergence of cartography, secrecy, and power occurred during the Cold War. In the American case, a complex series of interactions between secret and classified programs and institutions and their publicly accessible counterparts accomplished both traditional and novel objectives of military geographic intelligence. This process also yielded the World Geodetic System, a masscentered “figure of the earth ” at accuracies adequate for warfa…
The New Nature of Maps
This volume is a celebration of the intellectual impact of the late historian of cartography John Brian Harley, presented through a thoroughly annotated republication of seven of his later essays and a comprehensive bibliography of his writings, along with a useful introduction written by a former colleague. The title is that of the book Harley proposed to write next in 1991. Instead he died later that same year, at the age of fifty-nine. In lieu…
Special Guest-Edited Issue on the Earth Sciences in the Cold War
Historical Atlases
Reviewed by: Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570–1870 John Cloud (bio) Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570–1870. By Walter Goffart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii+603. $65. In the sixteenth century, European cartographer-publishers produced a profusion of new maps, and they also copied each other's maps. Eventually these were bound in compendia called atlases; the first is generally c…
Cultures in Orbit
Reviewed by: Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual John Cloud (bio) Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. By Lisa Parks. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+241. $22.95. Satellites are the farthest-flung portions of complex terrestrially based systems that structure so much of modern life. Analysis of their context and impact is quite difficult. But in Cultures in Orbit Lisa Parks presents an ambitious, stimul…
Cartographies of Disease
Reviewed by John Cloud Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine. By Tom Koch. Redlands, Calif.: ESRI Press, 2005. Pp. 389. $44.95. This book is an important contribution to the history of medical geog-raphy in general, and more particularly the evolution of nineteenth- and twentieth-century cartographic strategies to understand and combat the diseases of contagion, both very ancient and quite new. Tom Koch, a medical geographer and b…
The Long Arc of the Pathfinder
The Second World War was perhaps the most important event in the history of cartography; certainly more maps and charts were produced for that conflict than for any other episode of human history. This paper looks at the war and the hundreds of millions of maps produced for it from a distant vantage point: the singular perspective of a small hydrographic survey vessel alone in the Pacific Ocean. From 1942 to 1945, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey…
Plotting the Globe
Reviewed by: Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line, and: Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection John Cloud (bio) Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line. By Avraham Ariel and Nora Ariel Berger . Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Pp. xii+235. $49.95. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projectio…
Discerning the Relation between American Science and American Democracy
Discerning the Relation between American Science and American Democracy:A. Hunter Dupree’s Science in the Federal Government John Cloud (bio) Gamblers the world over consider seven a lucky number. This Gregorian year of 2007 features a profusion of science-and-technology–related anniversaries strutting into view like sequined dancers on a Las Vegas runway. It is the three hundredth anniversary of the births of Carolus Linnaeus and Leonard Euler, …
In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
Reviewed by: In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society John Cloud (bio) In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society. By Mark Carey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+273. $24.95. Melting and retreating glaciers are a critical motif in the science and contention of global climate change. For the most part glaciers are located distantly enough from human populations that their melt…
No Dig No Fly No Go
No Dig No Fly No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control. By Mark Monmonier." Imago Mundi, 63(2), pp. 236–237
Globalizing Polar Science
Reviewed by: Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years John Cloud (bio) Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years. Edited by Roger D. Launius, James Rodger Fleming, and David H. Devorkin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xii+386. $30. Polar sciences grow in scope and importance in inverse relationship to glaciers and ice caps as they shrink. The frigi…
Mapping the Cold War
Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power. By Timothy Barney." Imago Mundi, 69(1), pp. 124–125
Geography (11 works) · History (10 works) · Cartography (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Cold war (4 works) · Geology (4 works)