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Mapping Mountains
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Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an initial overview and critique of the traditional historiography and development of techniques of relief representation, the essay features four clusters of mountain mapping emphases. These include visions of mountains as paradise, the mountain as site of colonial and postcolonial encounter, the development of elevation profiles and panoramas, and mountains as mass-marketed touristed itineraries.
Ernesto Capello (Ph.D. Texas, 2005) is Professor of History at Macalester College. He has published City at the Center of the World: Space, History and Modernity in Quito (Pittsburgh, 2011) and numerous articles on cities, mountains, and visuality in science.
Mapping Mountains
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Introduction
1 The Traditional Historiography and its Challengers
1.1 Just What is a Mountain Anyway?
1.2 Traditional Historiography
1.3 Challenging Traditional Historiography
1.4 A Rather Brief Overview of Contemporary Cartographic Relief Presentation
2 Paradise and Pilgrimage
3 Colonial and Postcolonial Peaks
4 Profiles and Panoramas
5 Touristed Itineraries
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
All interested in the history of cartography and geography. Students and specialists in visual culture studies, nationalism and empire studies, environmental studies, memory studies, tourism studies.