Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West: Regional Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2017 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography) (Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA))

Martijn Storms (Editor), Mario Cams (Editor), Imre Josef Demhardt (Editor), and Ferjan Ormeling (Editor)

This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th–20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the focus was on points of contact between Western and Asian cartographic history. Geographically, the topics were limited to South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, with special attention to India, China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. Topics addressed included Asia’s place in the world, the Dutch East India Company, toponymy, Philipp Franz von Siebold, maritime cartography, missionary mapping and cadastral mapping.

• ISBN13: 9783030080082
• Publish Date: 1 February 2019 (first published 28 June 2018)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: CH
• Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 299
• Language: English