Reading Maps at a Distance: Texts on Maps as New Historical Data

2024/07/02 by Katherine McDonough, Kaspar Beelen, Daniel Wilson +1 · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Historical Geography and Cartography #Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography #Philippine History and Culture

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/03085694.2024.2453336

openalex publication_date 2024/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

Maps have their own visual grammar that combines graphical and textual elements in a form of meaning-making that is multimodal and geospatial. Historians of cartography have in the past ignored its...

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• Just in time for the final day of the @dataculture.bsky.social project, our experimental article, ‘Reading Maps at a Distance’ is published (OA) in Imago Mundi: doi.org/10.1080/0308..., which was a bl [bsky, 8 points, 1 comments]

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