Product Details
Format: Paperback Book
Pages: 207
Language: English
Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Author: Mark Monmonier
Comments: Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. As Monmonier shows, maps not only point the way and provide information, maps lie. In fact, they must.
The second edition is update with addition of two new chapters, 10 color plates, and a new forward by renowned geographer H.J. de Blij. One new chapter examines the role of national interest and cultural values in national mapping organizations, including the United States Geological Survey, while the other explores the latest technology in multimedia, computer-based maps.
To show how maps distort, Monmonmier introduces basic principles of mapmaking, gives entertaining examples of the misuse of maps in situations from zoning disputes to census reports, and covers all the typical kinds of distortions from deliberate oversimplifications to misleading use of color.
About the Author: Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Profesor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Punlic Affairs at Syrscuse University. He is the author or coauthor of twelve books, including most recently Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy and Bushmanders and Bullwinkles, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Publication Details
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date of Publication: 1996
Published in Country: USA
Product Number: ISBN # 9780226534213
