Time in Maps

Karen Wigen is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University. Caroline Winterer is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University.

• Foreword by Abby Smith RumseyIntroduction: Maps Tell Time Caroline Winterer and Kären WigenChapter 1: Mapping Time in the Twentieth (and Twenty-First) Century William RankinPart I: Pacific AsiaChapter 2: Orienting the Past in Early Modern Japan Kären WigenChapter 3: Jesuit Maps in China and Korea: Connecting the Past to the Present Richard A. PeggPart II: The Atlantic WorldChapter 4: History in Maps from the Aztec Empire Barbara E. MundyChapter 5: Lifting the Veil of Time: Maps, Metaphor, and Antiquarianism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Veronica Della DoraChapter 6: A Map of Language Daniel RosenbergPart III: The United StatesChapter 7: The First American Maps of Deep Time Caroline WintererChapter 8: How Place Became Process: The Origins of Time Mapping in the United States Susan SchultenChapter 9: Time, Travel, and Mapping the Landscapes of War James R. AkermanAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIndex

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