{"id":1790036,"date":"2021-01-29T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790036"},"modified":"2021-01-29T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:47:59","slug":"more-about-time-in-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/01\/more-about-time-in-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"More About ‘Time in Maps’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>While you\u2019re waiting for me to review K\u00e4ren Wigen and Caroline Winterer\u2019s Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, here is some more information about this collection of essays about how maps have been used to depict time. Time in Maps<\/em> is the end product of a conference<\/a> held at Stanford\u2019s David Rumsey Map Center in November 2017, and the editors are history professors at Stanford, so naturally the university\u2019s media channels are all over it: Stanford Today<\/em> published a piece last week<\/a> that coincided with the book launch<\/a>, and there\u2019s also a short video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously: New Books from the University of Chicago Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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While you\u2019re waiting for me to review K\u00e4ren Wigen and Caroline Winterer\u2019s Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era, here is some more information about this collection of essays about… 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":[30,1497],"class_list":["post-1790036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-books","tag-time","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786549,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/office-of-strategic-services-maps-at-stanford\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790036,"position":0},"title":"Office of Strategic Services Maps at Stanford","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Stanford University Libraries' collection of Office of Strategic Services Maps: The OSS Map Division, directed by Arthur H. 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