History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps电子书

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Frontispiece

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

A Weary Titan? 1900–1918

1900: A Trip to the Continent: Edwardian tourism

1900: ‘Better than nothing at all’: mapping the Boer War

1901: A glue spread increasingly thin: the Navy League map

1901: Jewish East London: maps, statistical maps and immigration

1902: The relief of Ladysmith and attempts at rehabilitation

1905: The Railway Clearing House: South Wales coal and the logistics of rail

1907: A Map of the World, as Seen by Him: the golden age of the picture postcard

1907: ‘A pleasant narcotic’: opium and the Edwardian drug trade

1908: Philips’ model test maps: practical schooling for the heirs of empire

1908: How to Get There: the evolution of the London Underground

1910: Fire insurance plans: mapping a young Canadian community

1911: Ulster’s prayer: Ireland and Home Rule

1911: The Delhi Durbar: imperial pomp and pageantry

1914: Sketch map of an Antarctic adventure: Shackleton’s fund-raising appeal

1914: Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark! Aggression and optimism upon the outbreak of war

1915: The Great War as seen from Warsaw

1915: Gallipoli: troop positions at Anzac Cove

1916: What Germany Wants The Berlin to Baghdad Railway and German ambitions in the Middle East

1916: A section of the front on the first day of the Somme

1918: An Ancient Mappe of Fairyland: make-believe against the backdrop of Armageddon

Top Dog! 1919–1945

1919: ‘A great moral effect’: the massacre at Amritsar

1920: Britain, Greater Greece and the Turkification of Asia Minor

1924: A miniature atlas of the British Empire: less is more

1926: A secret map of London: contingency planning for the general strike

1926: The Hundred Acre Wood

1927: Celestial bodies and holiday traffic: a cartographic guide to the solar eclipse

1929: A pictorial chart of English literature for the American tourist

1930: The Gleneagles map of the heart of Scotland

1930: Immigration and land settlement in Mandatory Palestine

1931: A map of New Zealand, Britain’s outlying farm

1933: Pieces of eight: a satirical cartoon of the world financial crisis

1936: Hitler’s ‘best Parteitag’: Nuremberg and fascist tourism

1937: A souvenir flag of the coronation of Edward VIII

1938: The Spanish Civil War: British neutrality and poor-quality maps

1940: Blitzed London: a Luftwaffe map of ‘Mayfair Square’ and the London County Council ‘bomb damage’ maps

1940: Occupied Paris: a tourist map for German troops

1941: A spy map for the Japanese submarine attack upon Pearl Harbor

1942: Vichy and the Churchillian octopus

1943: Blake’s Battle of the Atlantic

1944: On leave in New York: a subway map for British sailors

1944: A secret map of occupied Alderney

1944: D-Day and the Battle for Caen

1945: Isotype maps and women in the workplace

1945: Occupied Berlin: the U-Bahn and daily life in the ruined city

1945: Christmas greetings from Nuremberg

Bust to Boom to Bust. 1946–1972

1947: Partition and the end of empire in India

1949: Two maps charting the changing face of British railways

1949: Aquila Airways: austerity, government surplus, and the post-war travel boom

1951: What do they talk about? The British and the Festival of Britain

1952: A map of Caribbean oil

1953: The royal tour of the Commonwealth: an itinerary for the admiral

1953: Cruising on the ‘Green Goddess’: a transatlantic coronation celebration

1954: Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth: the entire story at a single glance

1956: Military mapping during the Suez Crisis

1957: Just testing: a nuclear blast over Southampton

1957: A tourist map of Alicante: Spanish holidays and the anticipation of paradise

1958: The world we live in: overpopulation and uninhabited wastes

1958: Land use and the creation of modern Hong Kong

1961: Bahía de Cochinos: a quiet little spot for an invasion

1962: ‘The European Community in Maps’: preparing the way for the UK

1964: A do-it-yourself general election map

1965: Glasgow residential land use: housing solutions for ‘Empire’s second city’

1967: A map of the proposed new town of Milton Keynes: the spirit of the age

1968: Earthly concerns: a photograph of the Earth and a medal of the moon

1971: Heritage in glorious colour: a football history map of England and Wales

1971: At face value: the map in conceptual art

1972: Four decades on: an attempt at the truth behind Bloody Sunday

Out of the Red and Into the Blue 1973–1999

1973: Maps of ‘Cherished land’ and Industrial expansion

1974: ‘From Liverpool to the World’: the birth of Beatles tourism

1975: Nuclear power and the gamut of public opinion

1975: The North Sea oil bonanza

1977: April Fool’s Day and the newspaper hoax: the islands of San Serriffe

1977: The Silver Jubilee beacons: evoking the spirit of 1588

1978: Colonial mapping and the Rhodesian Bush War

1980: Happy Eater: catering for Britain’s A roads

1981: Drinking and driving: fifteen inns of character in Kent

1981: ‘Islands of the Blessed’: a socialist map of tax havens

1982: FAGA and the Falklands

1982: Gay London

1984: A map of George Orwell’s ‘1984’

1984: A CND operations map: guerilla warfare on Salisbury Plain

1985: The guitar and the continent: the Live Aid logo

1986: Hunting with dogs: a map of landed Britain

1986: The growth of the supermarket: a map for expansion

1989: SimCity: video games and urban planning for fun

1990: Tribal maps in Belfast

1991: Public and secret maps of the Gulf War

1992: Soviet Sunderland: part of a global mapping project

1994: Walt Disney World: the suburb where dreams come true

1995: A map of Internet traffic: information beautiful and useful

1995: Where will they draw the line? Tobacco advertising and the death of the smoker

1995: A New Social Atlas of Britain: turning statistics into pictures

1996: The Mercator Atlas of Europe: old maps as investments

1997: The geography of mourning: a newspaper maps the public funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales

1997: The Glastonbury Festival: the image, the reality and the Criminal Justice Act

1999: A cartographic chronicle of the fall of Yugoslavia

1999: Millennium tapestry map: Britain’s communities

Postscript

Endnotes

List of Maps

Further Reading

Picture Credits

Index