Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion

Mapping Stories and Movement through Time

Zef Segal, Bram Vannieuwenhuyze

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040786895
• Topic: Geschichte
• Subtopic: Technik, Forschung & Kompetenzen

Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion argues that the mapping of stories, movement, and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a longer history than might be assumed. The authors in this collection reflect upon the main characteristics and evolutions of story and motion mapping, from the figurative news and history maps that were mass-produced in early modern Europe, through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century flow maps that appeared in various atlases, up to the digital and interactive motion and personalized maps that are created today. Rather than presenting a clear and homogeneous history from the past up until the present, this book offers a toolbox for understanding and interpreting the complex interplays and links between narrative, motion, and maps.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Diagrams
• Introduction
• 1. The New World Map and the Old: The Moving Narrative of Joan Blaeu’s Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula (1648)
• 2. Entangled Maps: Topography and Narratives in Early Modern Story Maps
• 3. Flow Mapping through the Times: The Transition from Harness to Nazi Propaganda
• 4. The Tensions of Heterochronicity on Cartographies of Imperial Motion in Japan
• 5. A School Atlas as a History Machine: The Bosatlas Online
• 6. Facebook Cartographies and the Mapping of Local History: Storied Maps from the American Middletown
• 7. ‘Change-of-State’ in the History of Cartography