Marking time

James Holloway explores how the passage of time is revealed in maps through the ages

REVIEWS / BOOKS Marking time James Holloway explores how the passage of time is revealed in maps through the ages Time in Maps From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era Kären Wigen & Caroline Winterer eds University of Chicago Press 2020 Hb, 231pp, £34, ISBN 9780226178590 Although we tend to think of maps as a way of representing space, we actually use them for much more, including the depiction of time. In Time in Maps, Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer collect nine papers that look at different ways in which cartographers and others have tried to use maps to depict history and prehistory. In the book’s first section William I Ranking argues that modern maps can represent change over time effectively. The next two papers focus on maps…

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