The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and importan...(展开全部)

The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and importan...(展开全部)

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong. Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the O...(展开全部)

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong. Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the O...(展开全部)

曼斯缪·奎尼，意大利著名汉学家，卫匡国研究中心研究员，热那亚大学人文与哲学系地理学教师，同时也是意大利地理学研究的主要理论家之一。其科学著作《马克思主义、地理学与人文地理学的重构》被译成数种语言.他主要研究历史地理学、制图史和疆域史。 米歇尔·卡斯特诺威，1968年出生于萨沃纳，是热那亚大学人文与哲学系历史地理研究员。卡斯特诺威是一位航海史专家，也是意大利历史地图研究所成员，同时也是一本评论杂志的编委会成员。 汪前进，中国科学院自然科学史研究所研究员，地图史专家。

曼斯缪·奎尼，意大利著名汉学家，卫匡国研究中心研究员，热那亚大学人文与哲学系地理学教师，同时也是意大利地理学研究的主要理论家之一。其科学著作《马克思主义、地理学与人文地理学的重构》被译成数种语言.他主要研究历史地理学、制图史和疆域史。 米歇尔·卡斯特诺威，1968年出生于萨沃纳，是热那亚大学人文与哲学系历史地理研究员。卡斯特诺威是一位航海史专家，也是意大利历史地图研究所成员，同时也是一本评论杂志的编委会成员。 汪前进，中国科学院自然科学史研究所研究员，地图史专家。

康斯坦斯·克拉森，康考迪亚大学的研究员，感觉史研究专家，长期专注于感觉史的研究，致力于探索人类感官知觉与文化之间的关系，以及感官经验如何影响了社会和文化的发展等主题。代表作有《感觉的世界 :探索历史与跨文化的感觉》《芳香 :嗅觉文化史》《深层感知 :触摸的文化史》《感知的方式 :理解社会中的感官》，曾担任六卷本《感官文化史》丛书的主编。

In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation,...(展开全部)

When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark History of Cartography series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J.B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the larger renaissance in map studies that the series would inspire. But as the renown of the series and the comprehensiveness and acuity o...(展开全部)

When the University of Chicago Press launched the land-mark "History of Cartography" series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J. B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the larger renaissance in map studies that the series would inspire. But as the renown of the series and the comprehensiveness and acui...(展开全部)