Mapping the Holy Land: The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine

by Bruno Schelhaas, Jutta Faehndrich, Haim Goren

Overview

Mapping the Holy Land provides a unique study of the cartography of the Holy Land during the formative period of its development. Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology – the authors explore the complex cultural, cartographic and technical processes that shaped and determined the resulting maps of the region. Making full use of newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, Mapping the Holy Land is essential reading for cartographers, historical geographers, historians of mapmaking, and for all those with an interest in the Holy Land and the history of Palestine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857729835
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/28/2017
Series:	Tauris Historical Geographical Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	53 MB
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About the Author

Haim Goren is Professor of Historical Geography, Tel Hai College, Israel. He has a longstanding interest in the Holy Land, European activity in Ottoman Palestine and the Near East, and the history of the modern scientific study of these regions. He is the author of Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East (2011) and (with E.Dolev and Y. Sheffy) Palestine and the First World War: New Perspectives (2014), both published by I.B.Tauris.Bruno Schelhaas is Head of the Archive for Geography, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography,Leibniz, Germany. His interests include the history of geography and cartography, historical geography and archival science.Jutta Faehndrich is a researcher with the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, where her research focus is on the history of cartography, European cultural history, and cultures of memory.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of illustrations

1. Introduction: Mapping the Holy Land

2 Edward Robinson, Eli Smith and the cartography of Berghaus and Kiepert

3. The Land and the Map: C.W.M. van de Velde's Map of the Holy Land

4. August Petermann's Palestine maps

Notes

Archival sources

Bibliography

Index