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Cartographies of time / Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton.

By: Rosenberg, Daniel, 1966-.
Contributor(s): Grafton, Anthony.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2010Description: 272 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.ISBN: 9781616890582; 9781568987637.Subject(s): Chronology, Historical | Chronology, Historical -- Charts, diagrams, etc | Chronology, Historical -- Maps | History -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 902.02
Contents:
Time in print -- Time tables -- Graphic transitions -- A new chart of history -- Frontier lines -- A tinkerer's art -- Outside and inside -- Big time.
Summary: An overview of the history of the graphic representation of time through almanacs, charts, graphs, and other forms in the United States and Europe since 1450.
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General lending MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending 902.02 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00159133
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Now in Paperback! What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. The authors, both accomplished writers and historians, sketch the shifting field of graphic representations of history from the beginning of the print age through the present. They shed light on western views of history and on the complex relationship between general ideas about the course of events and the technical efforts to record and connect dates and names in the past. In addition to telling a rich, forgotten story, this book serves as a kind of grammar of historical representation, uncovering the ways in which time has been structured in thought and in images, in the Western tradition. Written for both the academically curious and the general reader, Cartographies of Time provides a set of tools for understanding the evolution and the significance of graphic representations of time both in history and in contemporary culture.

A History of the timeline -- from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Time in print -- Time tables -- Graphic transitions -- A new chart of history -- Frontier lines -- A tinkerer's art -- Outside and inside -- Big time.

An overview of the history of the graphic representation of time through almanacs, charts, graphs, and other forms in the United States and Europe since 1450.

UCC fund.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Daniel Rosenberg is associate professor of history at the University of Oregon. He has published widely on history, theory, and art, and his work appears frequently in Cabinet magazine, where he is editor-at-large. With Susan Harding, he is editor of Histories of the Future.Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous books on European history and also writes on a wide variety of topics for the New Republic, American Scholar, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker.