James R Akerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 2492568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Akerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Akerman |
| SIGNATURE | AKERMAN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newberry Library |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Exhibition as a Map
G. Malcolm Lewis (1930–2022)
He was born in 1930 in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire in the village of Carcroft, near Doncaster, where his father held a surface managerial post in the large coal mine there.Having gained a place at Percy Jackson Grammar School in nearby Adwick-Le-Street, he started his secondary education in autumn 1941.His interests lay in the sciences, and he studied German rather than French as his required foreign language, later observing that …
Trail of Footprints
Decolonizing the Map
A View from America
The study of the history of cartography in the United States has been profoundly shaped by the peculiar American institution sometimes known as the ‘treasure house’. These libraries, located in major metropolitan areas and at prestigious universities, were created through the philanthropy of businessmen of local and national significance, most of whom also collected maps and books. The collecting patterns of these philanthropists and the institut…
Territory, Globalization, and International Relations
For the readership of this journal the close relationship between the rise of the modern territorial nation-state and the development of modern (that is, geometrically abstract and measured) and ge
The Mapmakers’ Quest
David Buisseret. The Mapmakers’ Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. xxii + 228 pp. + 12 color pls. index.illus. map. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-19-210053-X. - Volume 58 Issue 2
American Promotional Road Mapping in the Twentieth Century
This paper sketches the broad outlines of the practices of map publishers, industrial concerns, motor clubs, and state governments to convince Americans to become motoring tourists and, hence, to consume the goods, services, and landscapes these interests wished to promote. Their efforts were rooted in the promotional mapping of American railroads during the nineteenth century and in bicycle mapping. Yet, the particular demands of automobile trav…
The structuring of political territory in early printed atlases
The atlas emerged as a cartographic and bibliographic response to early modern Europeans’ search for geographical order in a rapidly changing world. In particular, atlases were mediators in the restructuring of European ideas about political territory which culminated in the emergence (by the end of the eighteenth century) of the territorial state and its progeny, the nation‐state. For more than two centuries atlases defined political territories…
Blazing A Well-worn Path
Little has been written about the influence of economic interests of cartographic firms and their patrons on the content of maps – or, reciprocally, about the influence of cartographic images on the economic activities that inspire and shape them. Yet for a long time, automobile and highway-related industries have had a large stake in the publication of road maps in the United States, whether by their own agency or by that of semi-private highway…
Selling maps, selling highways
Fourteenth international conference on the history of cartography, Uppsala and Stockholm, 14–19 June 1991
Decolonizing the Map
The structuring of political territory in early printed atlases
The atlas emerged as a cartographic and bibliographic response to early modern Europeans’ search for geographical order in a rapidly changing world. In particular, atlases were mediators in the restructuring of European ideas about political territory which culminated in the emergence (by the end of the eighteenth century) of the territorial state and its progeny, the nation‐state. For more than two centuries atlases defined political territories…
American Promotional Road Mapping in the Twentieth Century
This paper sketches the broad outlines of the practices of map publishers, industrial concerns, motor clubs, and state governments to convince Americans to become motoring tourists and, hence, to consume the goods, services, and landscapes these interests wished to promote. Their efforts were rooted in the promotional mapping of American railroads during the nineteenth century and in bicycle mapping. Yet, the particular demands of automobile trav…
Selling maps, selling highways
Fourteenth international conference on the history of cartography, Uppsala and Stockholm, 14–19 June 1991
Fourteenth international conference on the history of cartography, Uppsala and Stockholm, 14–19 June 1991
Blazing A Well-worn Path
Little has been written about the influence of economic interests of cartographic firms and their patrons on the content of maps – or, reciprocally, about the influence of cartographic images on the economic activities that inspire and shape them. Yet for a long time, automobile and highway-related industries have had a large stake in the publication of road maps in the United States, whether by their own agency or by that of semi-private highway…
Selling maps, selling highways
The structuring of political territory in early printed atlases
The atlas emerged as a cartographic and bibliographic response to early modern Europeans’ search for geographical order in a rapidly changing world. In particular, atlases were mediators in the restructuring of European ideas about political territory which culminated in the emergence (by the end of the eighteenth century) of the territorial state and its progeny, the nation‐state. For more than two centuries atlases defined political territories…
American Promotional Road Mapping in the Twentieth Century
This paper sketches the broad outlines of the practices of map publishers, industrial concerns, motor clubs, and state governments to convince Americans to become motoring tourists and, hence, to consume the goods, services, and landscapes these interests wished to promote. Their efforts were rooted in the promotional mapping of American railroads during the nineteenth century and in bicycle mapping. Yet, the particular demands of automobile trav…
The Mapmakers’ Quest
David Buisseret. The Mapmakers’ Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. xxii + 228 pp. + 12 color pls. index.illus. map. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-19-210053-X. - Volume 58 Issue 2
Territory, Globalization, and International Relations
For the readership of this journal the close relationship between the rise of the modern territorial nation-state and the development of modern (that is, geometrically abstract and measured) and ge
A View from America
The study of the history of cartography in the United States has been profoundly shaped by the peculiar American institution sometimes known as the ‘treasure house’. These libraries, located in major metropolitan areas and at prestigious universities, were created through the philanthropy of businessmen of local and national significance, most of whom also collected maps and books. The collecting patterns of these philanthropists and the institut…
Decolonizing the Map
G. Malcolm Lewis (1930–2022)
He was born in 1930 in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire in the village of Carcroft, near Doncaster, where his father held a surface managerial post in the large coal mine there.Having gained a place at Percy Jackson Grammar School in nearby Adwick-Le-Street, he started his secondary education in autumn 1941.His interests lay in the sciences, and he studied German rather than French as his required foreign language, later observing that …
Trail of Footprints
The Exhibition as a Map
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