Hi all-
Books are all taken. Keep an eye out for another call in a few months when I have more books to review.
Ilene
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Hi all-
Two of the three books have been taken. "A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake" is still available. First response to me off-list gets it.
Thank you!
Ilene
Ilene Raynes
Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library Sciences Department, University Libraries University of Colorado Boulder
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Boulder, CO 80309
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Subject: Seeking book reviewers for the WAML IB
Hi All-
I'm the Review Editor for the "Atlas and Book Review" section of the WAML Information Bulletin. I'm seeking reviewers for the following three books (descriptions for these books are taken from Amazon):
Scotland: Mapping the Nation, Second edition, by Chris Fleet, Margaret Wilkes and Charles W.J. Withers, Birlinn Ltd; February2018, ISBN-13: 978-1780274836.
From the earliest depictions of Scotland by Ptolemy in the second century AD to the most recent mapping and representation in the geographic information system and in satellite navigation, this collection offers a fascinating and thought-provoking perspective on Scottish history and geography. Written by experts who have spent their lives working with maps and map history, this new history of Scotland is beautifully illustrated with details of the most significant manuscripts and printed maps of the country.
A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake, by Christian J. Koot, NYU Press, December 2017, ISBN-13: 978-1479837298.
Tucked away in a near-forgotten collection, Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited is one of the most extraordinary maps of colonial British America. Created by a colonial merchant, planter, and diplomat named Augustine Herrman, the map pictures the Mid-Atlantic in breathtaking detail, capturing its waterways, coastlines, and communities. Herrman spent three decades travelling between Dutch New Amsterdam and the English Chesapeake before eventually settling in Maryland and making this map. Although the map has been reproduced widely, the history of how it became one of the most famous images of the Chesapeake has never been told.
A Biography of a Map in Motion uncovers the intertwined stories of the map and its maker, offering new insights into the creation of empire in North America. The book follows the map from the waterways of the Chesapeake to the workshops of London, where it was turned into a print and sold. Transported into coffee houses, private rooms, and government offices, Virginia and Maryland became an apparatus of empire that allowed English elites to imaginatively possess and accurately manage their Atlantic colonies.
Investigating this map offers the rare opportunity to recapture the complementary and occasionally conflicting forces that created the British Empire. From the colonial and the metropolitan to the economic and the political to the local and the Atlantic, this is a fascinating exploration of the many meanings of a map, and how what some saw as establishing a sense of local place could translate to forging an empire.
Atlas of the 2016 Elections by Robert H. Watrel (Editor), et al., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, January 2018, ISBN-13: 978-1538104224.
The 2016 presidential election was one of the most dramatic upsets in US political history. Virtually all pre-election polls indicated Democrat Hillary Clinton ahead of Republican Donald Trump in the popular vote and Electoral College. The Atlas of the 2016 Elections explains the surprising Trump victory with a series of unique maps unleashing the illustrative power of cartography and the explanatory power of history and political geography. The contributors-a balanced mix of geographers, political scientists, and historians-provide a comprehensive examination of the election process from the primary campaigns and nominating conventions to the fall campaign and final results. In addition to the presidential election, the Atlas has full coverage of other important races, including congressional races, state races, and local and state referenda. Illustrated with more than one hundred meticulously drawn full-color maps, the Atlas will be an essential reference and a fascinating!
resource for pundits, voters, campaign staff, and political junkies alike.
Deadline will be the last week of October for these reviews. (I will send you more specifics if wind up reviewing one of these books). Please contact me off-list if you're interested and I'll send you the book, the reviewer guidelines, and a due date.
Thanks-
Ilene
Ilene Raynes
Map Library Program Manager
Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library
Sciences Department, University Libraries
University of Colorado Boulder
184 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
303-492-4487
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