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The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

Categorie	Rusland / Sovjet-Unie
Boeknummer	#421585-YF5
Titel	The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
Auteur	Davies, John & Alexander J. Kent
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Chcago/London : University of Chicago Press
Jaar van uitgave	2017
ISBN10	022638957X
ISBN13	9780226389578
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original brown boards, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, small maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting	From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, DC, and London to towns like Pontiac, MI and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. What they chose to include on these maps can seem obvious like locations of factories and ports, or more surprising, such as building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by actual Soviet feet on the ground. The Red Atlas i... (Lees verder)ncludes over 350 extracts from these Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.
Pagina's	249
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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