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Nineteenth Century Collections Online – Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
By Sarah Gilmore, on 10 July 2014
UCL has trial access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online – Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature until 6th August 2014. For off-site access to this trial, please use web WTS or Desktop@UCL Anywhere.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online – Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature features a series of fully searchable, historical maps. Mapping the World reflects the massive industrialisation, imperialism, and exploration taking place during the Nineteenth Century. Researchers can access online fully searchable, full-image maps, travel diaries, gazetteers, and guide books spanning the globe. The archive helps develop a rich insight into the era of cartography, illuminating the changes taking place in map creation and providing a textured and layered reading of the age of imperialism.
Includes:
• Atlases/manuscripts
• European, Asian and Mid-East Travel Maps
• Maritime/nautical charts
• Battlefields
• Ordnance surveys
• Topographical Maps
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