Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe
Steven Seegel
Abstract
The book narrates the lives of five cartographers active in the early 20th century and uses records of their correspondence along historical research about the period to substantiate an analysis of the political and personal considerations that shaped the science of mapmaking. The cartographers worked with and made maps of East Central Europe before, throughout, and after World War I, driven onward to solidify their status and worth in strange frontiers after the tumultuous precursors and events of the Great War scattered them across national boundaries. Their projects were informed by nationa ... More
Keywords: cartography, geography, World War I, Twentieth Century, Psychohistory
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226438498 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: January 2019 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226438528.001.0001 |
