Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline

Daniel Rosenberg, Anthony Grafton

ISBN 10: 1616890584 / ISBN 13: 9781616890582

Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

About this Item

New oversized (8.6 x 10.7 inches) softcover. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, photos, and figures. 272 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616890584
• ISBN 13: 9781616890582
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • World History

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He has written a number of books on European history, including Defenders of the Text, The Footnote, and What Was 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. 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.