geography

Cartografía histórica

Cartografía histórica

Los mapas son representaciones más políticas que objetivas sobre un lugar. Al seleccionar y codificar algunas piezas de información, mientras se silencian otras, los mapas funcionan como discursos políticos y son usados como “órdenes de marcha” para construir geografías.

Historical cartography

Historical cartography

Maps are political rather than objective representations of a place. By selecting some pieces of information and codifying them, while silencing others, maps work as political discourses and are used as “marching orders” of geographies to be built.

Crossing Mountains: The Challenges of Doing Environmental History

About this issue

This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.

Content

Alfred Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift

Alfred Wegener was the first scientist to theorize the concept of continental drift to explain how land masses are situated today. Modernized technology proved his proposition to be true in the 1960s and many divisions of geologic study today begin with Wegener’s ideas.

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Mapping

Mapping

The cartography of nuclear bombings and nuclear waste can be understood and visualized in different ways depending on who is drawing the map. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization” by literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu.