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" Apollo's eye : "
Denis Cosgrove.
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BL
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635046
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Cosgrove, Denis E.
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Apollo's eye : : a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the western imagination /\ Denis Cosgrove.
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, c2001.
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xiii, 331 p. :: ill., maps ;; 24 cm.
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0801864917 (alk. paper)
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: 9780801864919 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-317) and index.
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| Contents
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Imperial and Poetic Globe -- Classical Globe -- Christian Globe -- Oceanic Globe -- Visionary Globe -- Emblematic Globe -- Enlightened Globe -- Modern Globe -- Virtual Globe.
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| Abstract
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"In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity." "Cosgrove's analysis traces a pattern of associations between global images and the formation of Western identities, paying tribute to the richly complex cosmographic tradition out of which today's geographical imagination has emerged."--BOOK JACKET.
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Geographical perception.
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Globes.
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G71.5.C68 2001
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