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Map Of A Nation

Autor Rachel Hewitt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2011

Descoperim în Map of a Nation o monografie istorică fascinantă care transformă un subiect aparent tehnic — crearea primelor hărți precise ale Marii Britanii — într-o aventură umană și politică de proporții. Rachel Hewitt reușește să scoată la lumină povestea nespusă a instituției Ordnance Survey, oferind o perspectivă inedită asupra modului în care o națiune a învățat să devină „vizibilă” pentru ea însăși. Analiza pornește de la necesitățile militare ale secolului al XVIII-lea și ajunge la consolidarea unei identități naționale prin intermediul rigurozității cartografice. Apreciem modul în care autoarea echilibrează rigoarea datelor istorice cu portretele vii ale personajelor excentrice care au condus acest proiect. Nu este doar o istorie a liniilor și a coordonatelor, ci un tablou al rezilienței umane: găsim aici detalii despre echipe de bărbați care cărau instrumente grele din alamă prin terenuri accidentate pentru a obține o acuratețe fără precedent. Cititorii familiarizați cu Mapping Britain de la Ordnance Survey vor aprecia aici profunzimea narativă suplimentară; în timp ce volumul menționat se concentrează pe arhivă și evoluția vizuală, Hewitt oferă contextul politic și social care a dictat forma acestor hărți. Spre deosebire de A History of Britain in 100 Maps de Jeremy Black, care utilizează hărțile ca puncte de plecare pentru teme istorice vaste, Map of a Nation se concentrează strict pe procesul nașterii cartografiei moderne britanice ca efort instituțional unitar. Această lucrare se înscrie perfect în preocupările autoarei Rachel Hewitt pentru istoria ideilor și a sentimentelor, teme explorate și în A Revolution of Feeling. Dacă în acea lucrare analiza colapsul Iluminismului prin prisma emoțiilor, aici investighează modul în care dorința iluministă de ordine și măsurare a modelat geografia fizică și politică a regatului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847082541
ISBN-10: 1847082548
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.)
Dimensiuni: 129 x 195 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: GRANTA BOOKS

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de istorie care dorește să înțeleagă cum s-a construit imaginea geografică a Marii Britanii. Veți câștiga o perspectivă rară asupra legăturii dintre tehnologie, politică și peisaj. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care apreciază istoria științei împletită cu biografia, oferind un motiv concret de admirație pentru efortul fizic și intelectual din spatele hărților pe care astăzi le considerăm de la sine înțelese.


Despre autor

Rachel Hewitt este o scriitoare și istoric britanic, cunoscută pentru capacitatea de a transforma cercetarea academică riguroasă în narațiuni accesibile publicului larg. Opera sa explorează adesea intersecția dintre istoria socială, politică și experiența umană. În Map of a Nation, ea valorifică interesul pentru secolele XVIII-XIX, perioadă tratată și în lucrarea sa A Revolution of Feeling. Prin scrierile sale, Hewitt analizează modul în care structurile de putere și schimbările culturale influențează percepția asupra spațiului și a identității, fie că este vorba despre cartografiere sau despre drepturile femeilor, subiect abordat în In Her Nature.


Descriere scurtă

Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map - the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and Map of a Nation is, amazingly, the first popular history to tell the story of the map and the men who dreamt and delivered it. The Ordnance Survey's history is one of political revolutions, rebellions and regional unions that altered the shape and identity of the United Kingdom over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It's also a deliciously readable account of one of the great untold British adventure stories, featuring intrepid and often eccentric individuals lugging brass theodolites up mountains to make the country visible to itself for the first time.

Recenzii

  • This is a brilliant book, and it's astonishing that no one has thought of writing it before ... History at its best -  A N Wilson, Reader's Digest
  • Gripping [story] about the remarkable personalities who initiated the scientific mapping of Britain and their extraordinary feats of skill and endurance ... this is the first book of a young historian of whom more will be heard -  Max Hastings, Sunday Times
  • Hewitt tackles the subject exuberantly ... the book won me over. The sweep of its history has true grandeur, and the incidentals of the tale are like desirables found in a cluttered antique shop -  Jan Morris, The Times
  • In this endlessly absorbing history, Rachel Hewitt narrates the history of our printed maps from King George II's "Scotophobic" cartographies to the three-dimensional computerised elevations of today ... In her lively and informative narrative, Hewitt highlights the Ordnance project's legion of draughtsmen, surveyors, dreamers and eccentrics -  Ian Thomson, Observer
  • An extremely handsome and scholarly account of the genesis of the OS map ... The next time I am in the Public House (wherever it is) I shall raise a pint to Rachel Hewitt and her band of map-makers -  Tom Fort, Sunday Telegraph
  • This is a solid account of how Britain's national mapping agency came into being ... she is good on the military, scientific and ideological impulses behind the OS and on its enormous appeal to the general public -  Sunday Times
  • A diligent and very detailed book ... she has done justice to a neglected subject and to neglected but worthy men -  Peter Lewis, Daily Mail
  • The enthralling story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map ... with wonderful tales of the intrepid individuals who lugged brass theodolites over hill and dale in order to make the country visible for the first time -  Caroline Sanderson, Bookseller
  • An exhaustively detailed study of the life and times of Ordnance Survey maps ... there are frequent nuggets of enjoyably recondite information -  Gillian Tindall, Literary Review
  • Tells the intriguing story of how the early productions of the theodolite-lugging surveyors who began the project in the 1790s developed into the digitalised OS of our own times -  Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller
  • A remarkable story of human endeavour in the name of Enlightenment values -  Claire Allfree, Metro
  • A fascinating account of British cartography ... In a compelling overview, Hewitt discusses how developments in scientific thinking, technological advances and an important dose of Anglo-French collaboration eventually led, in 1870, to the creation of the Ordnance Survey's First Series, a landmark as significant as The Oxford English Dictionary in shaping how the country thought about itself and its 'physical and intellectual' landscapes -  Lady
  • An erudite, meticulously researched and fascinating history -  Waterstone's Books Quarterly
  • A fascinating narrative... illuminates the process by which our nation redrew itself over a century -  Celia Brayfield, The Times
  • Hewitt's tale of cartography is pacy and -  like the best historical writing - focused on human endeavour rather than dry facts -  Sarah Warwick, Liverpool Daily Post, the Yorkshire Evening Post, East Anglian Daily Times, Eastern Daily Press, Newsletter
  • More hugely impressive historical studies from 2010 which celebrate peaceful pursuits rather than blood and bigotry include Rachel Hewitt's great study of the British Ordnance Survey, Map of a Nation -  Stephen Howe, Independent
  • A lively, well-written and carefully researched evocation of how the landscapes of Britain (and Ireland) came to be revealed with such dramatic precision -  William J Smyth, Irish Times
  • In this lively overview, Hewitt explains how over the course of a century developments in scientific thinking, technological advances and a critical dose of Anglo-French collaboration eventually led to the creation of the OS's First Series in 1870 -  Emma Hagestadt, Independent
  • A scholarly account of the genesis of the OS map, and a route into the national psyche -  Daily Telegraph
  • Hewitt tells a gripping story about the personalities who initiated the mapping of Britain and their extraordinary skill and endurance -  Max Hastings, Sunday Times
  • this description of the origins of mapping in the UK covers lots of ground ... anyone who has used a map and a compass to puzzle their way out after getting lost on Britain's foggy moorland has cause to thank the painstaking work of the original pioneers -  Maggie Hartford, Oxford Times
  • Within the first few paragraphs the open and engaging nature of Rachel Hewitt's writing had me captured ... How the men of those early years observed that first triangulation and achieved such accurate results will never cease to amaze and this beautifully crafted book is a fitting tribute and long overdue recognition of their achievements ... Such authoritative books are rare things and I would recommend to all who have feelings for maps and our UK landscape to take time to read Map of a Nation -  John Levell, Caught by the River
  • Anyone whose world has been shaped by the familiar OS maps seriously needs to read this book -  Margaret Elphinstone, Sunday Herald
  • Erudite and compelling ... One of Map of a Nation's many accomplishments is to show how adventurous and imaginative engineering and mapmaking could - and still can - be. It is readable, informative and its content often unexpected -  History Today

This is a brilliant book, and it's astonishing that no one has thought of writing it before ... History at its best - A N Wilson, Reader's DigestGripping [story] about the remarkable personalities who initiated the scientific mapping of Britain and their extraordinary feats of skill and endurance ... this is the first book of a young historian of whom more will be heard - Max Hastings, Sunday TimesHewitt tackles the subject exuberantly ... the book won me over. The sweep of its history has true grandeur, and the incidentals of the tale are like desirables found in a cluttered antique shop - Jan Morris, The TimesIn this endlessly absorbing history, Rachel Hewitt narrates the history of our printed maps from King George II's "Scotophobic" cartographies to the three-dimensional computerised elevations of today ... In her lively and informative narrative, Hewitt highlights the Ordnance project's legion of draughtsmen, surveyors, dreamers and eccentrics - Ian Thomson, ObserverAn extremely handsome and scholarly account of the genesis of the OS map ... The next time I am in the Public House (wherever it is) I shall raise a pint to Rachel Hewitt and her band of map-makers - Tom Fort, Sunday TelegraphThis is a solid account of how Britain's national mapping agency came into being ... she is good on the military, scientific and ideological impulses behind the OS and on its enormous appeal to the general public - Sunday TimesA diligent and very detailed book ... she has done justice to a neglected subject and to neglected but worthy men - Peter Lewis, Daily MailThe enthralling story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map ... with wonderful tales of the intrepid individuals who lugged brass theodolites over hill and dale in order to make the country visible for the first time - Caroline Sanderson, BooksellerAn exhaustively detailed study of the life and times of Ordnance Survey maps ... there are frequent nuggets of enjoyably recondite information - Gillian Tindall, Litera

Notă biografică

RACHEL HEWITT completed her doctoral thesis on the subject of the early Ordnance Survey at the University of London in 2007, and is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She won the 2008 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction for this project. She lives in Cambridge.