Historical atlases

Black, Jeremy

doi:10.1017/s0018246x0001493x

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“…This advance continued also in the 20th century, especially after World War II. During this period, more specialised works appeared, and there was also an increase in the range of topics covered in general historical atlases [19,20].…”

Section: Printed Historical Atlasesmentioning

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Cartographic Design and Processing of Originally Printed Historical Maps for Their Presentation on the Web

Justová,

Cajthaml

2023

IJGI

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On the example of our project on the creation of the historical web atlas on Czech history, we introduce the process of adapting originally printed historical maps for their presentation in the web environment, which overcomes the shortcomings of standard approaches in similar projects based on printed predecessors published only as zoomable scanned analogues or default GIS maps. To simplify the originally complex map and to increase the information potential of the maps, we propose seven different types of additional map functionality according to the specific characteristics of the original map content. In addition, we present a set of rules, principles, recommendations, and methods for the cartographic design and processing of originally printed historical maps that should be considered when they are prepared for presentation on the web, including the description of the specific visualisation processes for the proposed types of map functionality. The proposed complex methodology can be applied to similar projects focused on the conversion of originally printed maps to the web and may contribute to improving the quality of the visualisation and presentation of historical maps on the web in general.

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Section: Printed Historical Atlasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cartographic Design and Processing of Originally Printed Historical Maps for Their Presentation on the Web

Justová,

Cajthaml

2023

IJGI

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“…The technological progress and the use of digital technology including GIS in the cartographic creations over the past decades are strongly reflected in the shape of historical atlases from the most recent period (for the development of historical atlases see e.g. Black 1994;Black 1997;Dörflinger 1995 andGoffart 2003).…”

Section: Historical Atlases and Their Development Situation On The Tmentioning

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The research-analytic part of preparation of a cartographic work: a case study of an analysis of historical atlases as the basis for creating the Czech Historical Atlas

Bláha

Močičková

2018

Auc Geographica

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A new large historical atlas on the Czech and Czechoslovak history of the 20th century is currently being prepared under the project of the Czech Historical Atlas. In this article, the authors introduce the basic research-analytic part of preparation of this cartographic work. It is based on the extensive research and subsequent analysis of the already published and similarly focused Czech (Czechoslovak) and foreign historical atlases, which gave the team sources of inspiration for processing the concept of the new atlas. The choice, the subsequent description and the analysis were achieved by the application of predetermined criteria. The result is a large database of selected historical atlases produced in the whole world after 1950, which contains more than 400 items. In addition to the standard bibliographic description, it contains a series of further characteristics (methods of thematic cartography, applied scale series, etc.) and references to the excerpts. The authors have decided to make the database freely available on a web portal, because they assume that it can be broadly used for research leading to development in the area of atlas cartography. KEYWORDS historical atlas; analysis of atlases; conception of atlas; Czech Historical Atlas

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“…1 This is discussed comparatively in Black (1994), a curtain-raiser for what promises to be a fascinating book.…”

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Defining Akyemfo: the construction of citizenship in Akyem Abuakwa, Ghana, 1700–1939

Rathbone¹

1996

Africa

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By the early twentieth century the ruler of the historic Akan kingdom of Akyem Abuakwa in what is now the Republic of Ghana and his subjects confronted one another over issues of identity and allegiance. The evidence suggests that not only was this debate unprecedented but also that its language was novel. Such divisive issues were forced upon them by a tranche of new factors. These included the ownership of, or rights to, land as farms acquired increasing cash value in the wake of the success of cocoa cultivation. No less important in a jural setting dominated by the institutions of indirect rule was the issue of which chiefly jurisdiction applied to individual communities and even families in a kingdom with a historically varied ethnic population. The article shows how the king gradually elaborated both an ideology and a corpus of regulation which attempted to define citizenship and stranger status. The king and his council's organising principle idealised an ethnically homogeneous state. Many sections of the kingdom's population strongly contested the idea. They did so in part because this agenda potentially disempowered long-settled communities while granting new privileges to those close to the centre of ‘traditional’ power.

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Historical atlases

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Cartographic Design and Processing of Originally Printed Historical Maps for Their Presentation on the Web

Cartographic Design and Processing of Originally Printed Historical Maps for Their Presentation on the Web

The research-analytic part of preparation of a cartographic work: a case study of an analysis of historical atlases as the basis for creating the Czech Historical Atlas

Defining Akyemfo: the construction of citizenship in Akyem Abuakwa, Ghana, 1700–1939

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