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The map as an "idea": the role of cartographic imagery during the second world war / Alan K. Henrikson in American cartographer (the), vol 2 n° 1 (April 1975)  

Public [article]  inAmerican cartographer (the) > vol 2 n° 1 (April 1975) . - pp 19 - 53 Titre : The map as an "idea": the role of cartographic imagery during the second world war Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Alan K. Henrikson, Auteur Année de publication : 1975 Article en page(s) : pp 19 - 53 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] Etats-Unis [Termes IGN] guerre [Termes IGN] hémisphère Nord [Termes IGN] information cartographique [Termes IGN] projection azimutale [Termes IGN] projection Universal Transverse Mercator [Termes IGN] Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques [Vedettes matières IGN] Cartologie Résumé : (auteur) A revolution occurred during the early 1940's in the way Americans visually imagined the earth and represented it cartographically. The traditional "seaman's view" and "landsman's view," exemplified by the conventional Equator-based Mercator's projection, was replaced by a new "airman's view," typified by the North Pole-centered azimuthal projections. The increased use of these and other novel map forms resulted from and at the same time helped to promote a new world outlook among Americans, termed "Air-Age Globalism," which profoundly shaped the conduct of the war and the planning of the peace. The new geo-graphical conception was made up of four basic elements : a fresh recognition of the earth's sphericity; a growing realization of the earth's continuity and unity, which brought into question its division into separate "continents" and "hemispheres"; an imaginative ascension to an aerial perspective; and a centralized cartographic fixation upon the Arctic, which illustrated the proximity to the United States of the Soviet Union. On the spherical and contracted territorial map base of the Air-Age world spheres of political influence seemed to overlap. Americans and Russians obeyed more or less the same national imperatives they had always obeyed but in a radically altered spatial context. Their new real and imaginary physical set-ting, it is suggested, was an underlying cause of the Cold War. Numéro de notice : A1975-047 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1559/152304075784447243 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1559/152304075784447243 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92249 [article]

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