Publication

2001-02-07 - The Johns Hopkins University Press

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCG71.5 .C68 2001

Description

"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.

First Sentence

In Greek and Roman mythology Phoebus Apollo drives the sun's golden chariot above the terrestrial sphere, tracing the diurnal arc.

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Other Editions

  • Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western ImaginationHardcoverThe Johns Hopkins University Press2001-02-07

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