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G.T. Dempsey

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G.T. Dempsey

G.T. Dempsey is a Research Associate in the history of Late Antiquity at the University of California at Davis and, as a retired American career diplomat, he is also a commentator on American foreign policy.

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Geography 101

Review | Maps (Poetry)

This slim book reminds us that maps are not just lines and images on a surface – on paper or a globe – they are also emotional passages into the remembering and the meaning of our lives.

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Review: The Longest Line on the Map

This book tells the story of how and why the Pan-American Highway was conceived and, poignantly, the why of a stubborn gap that remains unconnected.

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Review | Oxford Atlas of the World, 25th Edition

The Oxford Atlas of the World, 25th edition, has a new feature on Tourism and Travel and new maps on armed conflicts around the world, as well as a new map on Antarctica using the latest data from the British Antarctic Survey.

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Geography 101

Review | Medieval Ireland

Medieval Ireland is Clare Downham’s comprehensive synthesis of the current state-of-play of the history of medieval Ireland, 400-1500 A.D.

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Review | Atlas:  A World of Maps from the British Library

Tom Harper’s Atlas:  A World of Maps from the British Library is a ‘definitive showcase’ of the national map collection of the British Library, one of the world’s largest with over four million maps dating from 15 B.C. to the present.

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Human Geography

Review | Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

The book, Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire, examines theories of medicine and science within a colonial, racially-mixed population.

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Human Geography

Review | The Ape that Understood the Universe

The Ape that Understood the Universe:  How the Mind and Culture Evolve is an engaging, intriguing, and ultimately most satisfying look into what the human mind can do and how it got that way.

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Maps and GIS

Review | The Consolation of Maps

Set in the world of the international trade in antique maps, this novel’s title seems most apt. 

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Maps and GIS

Review: The First Three Hundred Years of Historical Atlases

Though published a decade and a half ago, Walter Goffart’s Historical Atlases:  The First Three Hundred Years, remains the indispensable reference source for the appearance and development of historical atlases in the Western world. 

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Human Geography

Review | A History of the Future

The History of Future presents a survey of the history of futuristic predictions from the nineteenth century on through the first two-thirds of the twentieth, in the English-speaking world

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Maps and GIS

Review | Oxford Atlas of the World

G.T. Dempsey reviews the Oxford Atlas of the World. The 24th edition is scheduled to be published November, 2017.

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Physical Geography

Review | Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar:  A Guided Tour of the Solar System

G.T. Dempsey reviews Bonnie J. Buratti’s Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar:  A Guided Tour of the Solar System.

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City Maps: A coloring book for adults is a 94-page book containing 44 maps covering cities from around the world by Gretchen Peterson

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The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design is a cartographic classic by Arthur H. Robinson originally published in 1952. The book was based on Robinson’s doctoral research “which investigated the relationship between science and art in cartography and the resultant refinement of graphic techniques in mapmaking to present dynamic geographic information.”

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