Cartographies of Time : A History of the Timeline

from Katya0133

I was skeptical that the authors could find enough information in timelines to fill 200+ pages, but I was pleasantly surprised at how they tied in graphical representations of time with the philosophy and current events of the time period, from Biblical chronology to the Cold War.

from tuckerresearch

A great and important book, giving the history of timelines, graphical representations of history. This is epitomized by their inspired choice of title: Cartographies of Time, i.e. presenting timelines as a temporal-map, an adjunct to the more familiar spatial-map. They cover nearly everything, b...

from MarthaJeanne

I didn't finish this. It's not bad, but about half way through I decided I didn't really care. The illustrations are lovely. The text seems to keep repeating more or less the same thing, just with different names. It's also too big and heavy for comfortable reading. I was reading the German editi...

from Katya0133

I was skeptical that the authors could find enough information in timelines to fill 200+ pages, but I was pleasantly surprised at how they tied in graphical representations of time with the philosophy and current events of the time period, from Biblical chronology to the Cold War.

from tuckerresearch

A great and important book, giving the history of timelines, graphical representations of history. This is epitomized by their inspired choice of title: Cartographies of Time, i.e. presenting timelines as a temporal-map, an adjunct to the more familiar spatial-map. They cover nearly everything, b...