Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet by Lane, K. Maria D - 2010-12-30

University of Chicago Press, 2010. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Chicago Press, 2010-12-30. Illustrated. hardcover. Used: Good.

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Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 266pp. Red boards in dust jacket.

New. One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life-forms on the distant red planet - a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long since been dismissed as a famous error in the history of science, K. Maria D. Lane argues that there was nothing accidental about these early interpretations. Indeed, she argues, the construction of Mars as an incomprehensibly complex and engineered world both reflected and challenged dominant geopolitical themes during a time of major cultural, intellectual, political, and economic transition in the Western world. "Geographies of Mars" telescopes in on a critical period in the development of the geographical imagination, when European imperialism was at its zenith and American expansionism had begun in earnest. Astronomers working in the new observatories of the American Southwest or in the remote heights of the South American Andes… Read More

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 272 pages. 9.10x6.30x1.00 inches.