Mapping Wonderlands
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Mapping Wonderlands
Author: Dori Griffin
language: en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date: 2013-05-02
Though tourism now plays a recognized role in historical research and regional studies, the study of popular touristic images remains sidelined by chronological histories and objective statistics. Further, Arizona remains underexplored as an early twentieth-century tourism destination when compared with nearby California and New Mexico. With the notable exception of the Grand Canyon, little has been written about tourism in the early days of Arizona’s statehood. Mapping Wonderlands fills part of this gap in existing regional studies by looking at early popular pictorial maps of Arizona. These cartographic representations of the state utilize formal mapmaking conventions to create a place-based state history. They introduce illustrations, unique naming conventions, and written narratives to create carefully visualized landscapes that emphasize the touristic aspects of Arizona. Analyzing the visual culture of tourism in illuminating detail, this book documents how Arizona came to be identified as an appealing tourism destination. Providing a historically situated analysis, Dori Griffin draws on samples from a comprehensive collection of materials generated to promote tourism during Arizona’s first half-century of statehood. She investigates the relationship between natural and constructed landscapes, visual culture, and narratives of place. Featuring sixty-six examples of these aesthetically appealing maps, the book details how such maps offered tourists and other users a cohesive and storied image of the state. Using historical documentation and rhetorical analysis, this book combines visual design and historical narrative to reveal how early-twentieth-century mapmakers and map users collaborated to imagine Arizona as a tourist’s paradise.
Alice's Wonderland Mapping Wonderland
Journey Beyond the Looking Glass: Tap Into the Metaphysical Wonderland Step into the limitless realms of a world that exists beyond the threshold of imagination. Alice's Wonderlands: A Metaphysical Guide to Alice's Journey promises to be unlike any other exploration of Lewis Carroll's celebrated tale, transforming each whimsical element and character into profound metaphysical themes that speak to the modern soul. Are you ready to discover the hidden layers of Wonderland? From the ethereal symbols in The Metaphysical Wonderland to the depths of self-awareness found in Transformation and Self-Discovery, this guidebook highlights the transformative power of innocence, curiosity, and spiritual awakening. Chapters such as The White Rabbit: A Guide to Timelessness and The Cheshire Cat: A Figure of Wisdom unlock timeless secrets about intuition, inner truth, and deeper realities that crave your attention. Imagine breaking free from the chains of conventional reality with the guidance of The Mad Hatter, or exploring the nature of power and compassion through the eyes of The Queen of Hearts. Each character brings forth a lesson, with every page serving as a portal to higher dimensions of thought. Embark on a spiritual journey by understanding the silent wisdoms in The Dormouse: The Silent Observer or embracing life's unpredictability with The March Hare. Are you yearning for emotional healing? Crave transformation? Allow the ethereal voices of the Caterpillar, the Mock Turtle, and the Gryphon to guide you toward emotional freedom and ancient wisdom. Discover the profound philosophy of natural interconnectedness in The Garden of Live Flowers and confront your deepest fears to emerge victorious with the help of the mythical Jabberwocky. Through this magical and spiritual odyssey, you'll awaken your highest potential. Don't just read a story; live the metaphysical journey. Dive deep into the kaleidoscopic wisdom of Alice's adventures and experience a personal transformation that will echo through the corridors of your soul. Step into Wonderlands, and forever change how you interpret your own life's narrative.
Cartography
Author: Matthew H. Edney
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2019-04-12
“In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of ‘cartography’ to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps.” —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 Maps Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same. “[An] intellectually bracing and marvellously provocative account of how the mythical ideal of cartography developed over time and, in the process, distorted our understanding of maps.” —Times Higher Education “Cartography: The Ideal and Its History offers both a sharp critique of current practice and a call to reorient the field of map studies. A landmark contribution.” —Kären Wigen, coeditor of Time in Maps