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History of Military Cartography

5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2014

Editors: Liebenberg, Elri, Demhardt, Imre Josef, Vervust, Soetkin (Eds.)

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
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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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Image of Belgium in WWI Through Maps

Bracke, Prof. Wouter

Pages 3-23

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The Postal Service of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (1917–1919): A Time-Step Analysis Using Historical Data Integration in a GIS Environment

Frazão, Patrícia Franco (et al.)

Pages 25-38

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Position Mapping: Cartography, Intelligence, and the Third Battle of Gaza, 1917

Radunzel, Joel

Pages 39-60

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The Eye of the Army: German Aircraft and Aero Cartography in World War I

Espenhorst, Jürgen

Pages 61-82

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A Good Map Is Half The Battle! The Military Cartography of the Central Powers in World War I

Espenhorst, Jürgen

Pages 83-130

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Military and Civilian Mapping (ca 1912–1930) of the Great War: A Selective Private Collection (Including Postcards)

Herbert, Francis

Pages 131-156

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Mapping, Battlefield Guidebooks, and Remembering the Great War

Akerman, James R.

Pages 159-177

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The Peace Treaty of Versailles: The Role of Maps in Reshaping the Balkans in the Aftermath of WWI

Altic, Dr. Mirela Slukan

Pages 179-198

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The Role of Ethnographical Maps of Hungary and Romania at the Peace Talks After the Great War

Jeney, János

Pages 199-211

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Ideological Changes in Ethnic Atlas Mapping of East Central Europe During the Twentieth Century

Greulich, Marcus

Pages 213-229

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A New Kind of Map for a New Kind of World: 1919, the Peace, and the Rise of Geographical Cartography

Nekola, Peter

Pages 231-248

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Military Mapping Against All Odds: Topographical Reconnaissance in the United States from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War

Demhardt, Imre Josef

Pages 251-262

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The Peninsular War 1808–1814: French and Spanish Cartography of the Guadarrama Pass and El Escorial

Chías, Pilar, Ph.D. (Architecture) (et al.)

Pages 263-281

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Partisan Cartographers During the Kansas-Missouri Border War, 1854–1861

Cook, Karen Severud

Pages 283-299

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Mapping for Empire: British Military Mapping in South Africa, 1806–1914

Liebenberg, Elri

Pages 301-326

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From Peninsular War to Coordinated Cadastre: William Light’s Route Maps of Portugal and Spain, and His Founding of Adelaide, the ‘Grand Experiment in the Art of Colonization’

Henderson, Kelly, BSc, Grad. Cert. Telecom

Pages 327-345

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Contours of Conflict: the Highs and Lows of Military Mapping at The National Archives of the United Kingdom

Mitchell, Rose

Pages 347-362

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Whose Islands? The Cartographic Politics of the Falklands, 1763–1982

Sacks, Benjamin J

Pages 363-375

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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

Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA)

Copyright

2016

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Copyright Holder

Springer International Publishing Switzerland

eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25244-5
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25244-5
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25242-1
Series ISSN: 2195-1705
Edition Number: 1

Number of Pages

XI, 375

Number of Illustrations and Tables

165 b/w illustrations

Topics

Geographical Information Systems / Cartography