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Thinking Outside the Box in Multilateral Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations
Success in multilateral disarmament and arms control negotiations has been scarce in recent years. There is need for new approaches--to "think outside the box"--in order to make them work better because continued failure has real human costs. This volume offers new practical tools and perspectives to inform and help the ongoing efforts of multilateral disarmament practitioners, drawing from a range of contributors in civil society, diplomacy, and the policy and research fields. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN).
Cartography
Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
Das Schweizer Buch
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Helvetische Merkwürdigkeiten
Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge der Tagung «Helvetische Merkwürdigkeiten. Wahrnehmung und Darstellung der Schweiz in der Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte seit dem 18. Jahrhundert». Im Zentrum der Beiträge stehen bildliche und narrative Entwürfe, die von jeher das Bild der Schweiz prägten. Diese Entwürfe, so genannte helvetische 'Merkwürdigkeiten', werden aus Sicht der Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte vorgestellt und untersucht. Viele der Bilder und Texte avancierten in der Eigen- wie auch in der Fremdwahrnehmung zu Trägern einer nationalen Identität: Sie wurden zum kulturellen Erbe der Eidgenossenschaft stilisiert und darüber hinaus zu Idealen der westlichen Welt verklärt. Das Spektru...
