Overview
- Presenting information previously unavailable on military cartography from the 18th to the 20th century
- Reporting on research projects in the history of cartography at tertiary institutions worldwide
- An important aid to educationalists teaching the development of geographical information science
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)
Part of the book sub series: Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) (ICA)
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Table of contents (18 papers)
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Military Cartography during World War I
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Maps and the Aftermath of World War I
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Military Cartography on Various Fronts
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About this book
This volume gathers 19 papers first presented at the 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, which took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium on 2-5 December 2014. The overall conference theme was 'Cartography in Times of War and Peace', but preference was given to papers dealing with the military cartography of the First World War (1914-1918). The papers are classified by period and regional sub-theme, i.e. Military Cartography from the 18th to the 20th century; WW I Cartography in Belgium, Central Europe, etc.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: History of Military Cartography
Book Subtitle: 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2014
Editors: Elri Liebenberg, Imre Josef Demhardt, Soetkin Vervust
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25244-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25242-1Published: 29 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79757-1Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25244-5Published: 28 January 2016
Series ISSN: 1863-2246
Series E-ISSN: 1863-2351
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 375
Number of Illustrations: 165 b/w illustrations