Map Men

Informationen zum Autor Steven Seegel is professor of history at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire , published by University of Chicago Press, and Ukraine under Western Eyes . Klappentext "This book is a group intellectual biography of five prominent geographers from East Central Europe and the United States between the 1870s and the 1950s. Seegel recreates the public and private worlds of these mapmakers, who interacted with and influenced one another even as they played key roles in defining and redefining borders, territories, nations, and ultimately the interconnection of the world throughout the period that includes the two World Wars."--Provided by publisher. Zusammenfassung This book is a group intellectual biography of five prominent geographers from East Central Europe and the United States between the 1870s and the 1950s: Albrecht Penck of Germany; Eugeniusz Romer of Poland; Stepan Rudnyts'kyi of Ukraine; Isaiah Bowman of the United States; and Count Pal Teleki of Hungary.

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Steven Seegel is professor of history at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire, published by University of Chicago Press, and Ukraine under Western Eyes.

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"This book is a group intellectual biography of five prominent geographers from East Central Europe and the United States between the 1870s and the 1950s. Seegel recreates the public and private worlds of these mapmakers, who interacted with and influenced one another even as they played key roles in defining and redefining borders, territories, nations, and ultimately the interconnection of the world throughout the period that includes the two World Wars."--Provided by publisher.