New maps and atlases

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Man, Location and Behaviour: An Introduction to Human Geography. By Kevin R. Cox. 10 1/4 × 7 1/4. 399 pp. Index. John Wiley, Chichester, 1972. £4.lb75.

Urban Geography—a social perspective. By David Herbert. 8 3/4 × 5 3/4. 320 pp., illustrations, maps, notes and index. David and Charles. Newton Abbot, 1972. £5.lb50.

Industrial Britain: South Wales. By Graham Humphrys. 10 × 6 1/4, 253 pp. maps, tables, photographs. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972 £4.lb75

The Making of the Dutch Landscape: An Historical Geography of the Netherlands. By A. M. Lambert. 412 pp., 101 figs., bibliography. Seminar Press, London and New York, 1971. £4.50.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Water in Britain. By Keith Smith. 8 3/4 × 5 1/2, 241 pp., maps, illustrations, tables, and index. Macmillan, 1972. £3.

Soil Geography by James G. Cruickshank. 256 pp., 26 plates, 43 maps and diagrams. David &; Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972. £1.lb95 (paper).

Shetland (Islands series). By James R. Nicolson. 246 pp. Illustrations, Bibliog., Index. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972. £3.lb25.

CARTOGRAPHY AND SURVEY

Co‐ordinate Systems and Map Projections. By D. H. Maling. 9 1/2 × 6 1/4. Geo. Philip, London, 1973. £2.lb75.

EDUCATIONAL

The Geography of the Earth as a Globe. By R. K. Gresswell and H. J. Cooper. 7 1/4 × 9 3/4. 140 pp. 158 figures, index. Hulton, Amersham, 1971. 85p.

A New School Geography, Vol. 4: North West Europe. By F. R. Dobson and H. E. Virgo. 6 1/4 × 9 1/4, 126 pp., illus. maps. English Universities Press, London. £1.lb10.

The Unclean Planet. By R. E. Baker and J. A. Bushell. 8 3/4 × 6 1/2. 128 pp. Numerous illus. Ginn, London, 1972. £1.lb25.

Weather Study, an approach to scientific inquiry. By J. W. Bainbridge and R. W. Stockdale. 6 3/4 × 7 1/2, 83 pp. Methuen Educational Ltd. 1972. Hardback £1–80, Paperback 95p.

Introducing the New Geography. Introducing Transportation Networks. By K. Briggs. 9 3/4 × 7 1/4, 48 pp. University of London Press, 1972. Paperback Textbook 40p, Pupil Workbook 20p.

A Geography of Settlements (Aspect Geographies). By F. S. Hudson. 8 3/4 × 5y, 382 pp. 150 photos. Bibliography. Index. MacDonald and Evans, London, 1970. £1.lb75.     

The Padstow Hobby Horse,etc.

STUDIES IN MAGICAL AMULETS, CHIEFLY GRAECO-EGYPTIAN. By CAMPBELL BONNER. (University of Michigan Studies. Humanistic Series. Vol. XLIX.) Ann Arbor and London, 1950. XXIV, 334 pp., 25 plates. Reviewed by A. A. Barb.

LA TARASQUE. By Louis DUMONT. Gallimard, Paris. 1951. Reviewed by V. Alford.

IONA AND PETER OPIE (Editors). The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, xxviii plus 468 pp., 24 pl. and text illustrations. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 30s. Reviewed by Allan Gomme.

GOTTFRIED HENSSEN, ÜBERLIEFERUNG UND PERSÖNLICHKEIT. Münster, 1951. pp. XI, 236. Reviewed by E. Ettlinger.     

World maps and atlases

The Viking Age: The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of the English‐speaking Nations. Illustrated from the Antiquities discovered in Mounds, Cairns, and Bogs, as well as from the Ancient Sagas and Eddas. By Paul B. du Chaillu. With 1366 Illustrations, and Map. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1889. Price, 42s.

Hindu‐Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and beyond the Himalayas. By Major‐General Donald Macintyee, V.O. With Illustrations. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons. Pp. xx., 464. Price 21s.

The River Karún: An Opening to British Commerce. By William Francis Ainswoeth, Ph.D., F.S.A., F.E.G.S. London: Wm. Allen and Co., 13 Waterloo Place, 1890.

A Visit to the Azores; with a Chapter on Madeira. By Mrs. Charles Roudell. Pp. 197. London: Bickers and Son, 1889.

H. M. Stanley, the African Explorer. By Arthur Montefiore, F.R.G.S. London : S. W. Partridge and Co., n.d. Pp. 160. Price 1s. 6d.

One Man's Power: The Life and Work of Emin Pasha in Equatorial Africa. By the Rev. Henry W. Little, Author of Madagascar: its History and People; How to save Egypt, etc., etc., etc. With Portrait and Map. London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1889. Pp. 112.

Swiss Travel and Swiss Guidebooks. By W. A. B. Coolidge, Editor of The Alpine Journal. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. Pp. 336. Price 10s. 6d.

The Mount Pilatus Railway. By J. Hardmeyee. With 32 Illustrations. Zurich : Orell Füssli and Co., 1889. Price 1s.     

The structuring of political territory in early printed atlases

Abstract

The atlas emerged as a cartographic and bibliographic response to early modern Europeans’ search for geographical order in a rapidly changing world. In particular, atlases were mediators in the restructuring of European ideas about political territory which culminated in the emergence (by the end of the eighteenth century) of the territorial state and its progeny, the nation‐state. For more than two centuries atlases defined political territories ever more precisely for their readers and expressed hierarchical relationships among those territories, while giving form to the political territoriality and geopolitical orientations of particular nations.     

新四军夺取宁沪杭大城市计划及其放弃

抗战胜利前后,新四军为执行中共中央关于发展苏浙战略,配合盟军登陆东南沿海地带,以夺取南京、上海、杭州等大城市为目标,重点控制全浙江,有计划地布置力量,先后调遣苏中军区主力数批越江南下,后终因形势变化而最后放弃.