{"id":1789790,"date":"2020-12-14T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789790"},"modified":"2020-12-15T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:36:41","slug":"new-books-from-the-university-of-chicago-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/new-books-from-the-university-of-chicago-press\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books from the University of Chicago Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Two<\/p>\n

I received as review copies the following books from the University of Chicago Press, both now available:<\/p>\n

In The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, Jessica Maier \u201cconsiders Rome through the eyes of mapmakers and artists who have managed to capture something of its essence over the centuries. Viewing the city as not one but ten \u2018Romes,\u2019 she explores how the varying maps and art reflect each era\u2019s key themes. Ranging from modest to magnificent, the images comprise singular aesthetic monuments like paintings and grand prints as well as more popular and practical items like mass-produced tourist plans, archaeological surveys, and digitizations.\u201d Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by K\u00e4ren Wigen and Caroline Winterer, Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era<\/em><\/strong><\/a> collects nine essays on the \u201cingenious and provocative ways\u201d maps have attempted to depict time. \u201cFocusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time.\u201d Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Map Books of 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received as review copies the following books from the University of Chicago Press, both now available: In The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps, Jessica Maier \u201cconsiders Rome through the eyes of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30,1498,1497],"class_list":["post-1789790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-books","tag-rome","tag-time","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790318,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/03\/the-eternal-city-a-history-of-rome-in-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789790,"position":0},"title":"The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 March 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Something I often do when reviewing a book is talk about it in terms of the expectations of its potential readers\u2014particularly if readers might come to a book with expectations that the book does not meet, because the book is doing something different. 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