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The World Through Maps: A History of Cartography

John R. Short - 2003 - 240 pages
An illustrated history of maps and mapmaking, including reproductions of 200 antique maps.
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Global Dimensions: Space, Place and the Contemporary World

John R. Short - 2001 - 202 pages
John Rennie Short disagrees with the common, negative stereotype of globalization, arguing that the world today actually thrives on local differences and that a global polity ...
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Representing the Republic: Mapping the United States, 1600-1900

John R. Short - 2001 - 266 pages
Representing the Republic provides an intriguing account of the mapping of America from its colonial origins to 1900. The most significant maps and mapmakers are discussed in a ...
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Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and Society

John Rennie Short - 2005 - 284 pages
Explores the relationship between society and the physical world through representation -- the artistic re-creation of the physical world -- which reflects interpretation.
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Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600

John Rennie Short - 2004 - 222 pages
The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the seas navigated, and the land surveyed. Spatial practices were codified, a spatial sensitivity was ...
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Cities and Nature

Lisa Benton-Short, John R. Short - 2008 - 294 pages
Introducing the reader to the city as part of the environment, and subject to environmental constraints and opportunities, this title reintroduces a social science perspective ...
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Cities and Economies

Yeong-Hyun Kim, John R. Short - 2008 - 193 pages
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New Worlds, New Geographies

John Rennie Short - 1998 - 256 pages
John Rennie Short maintains that the "new world order" is neither new nor orderly. His book, New Worlds, New Geographies, connects global change, urban transformation, and ...
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