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How to Lie with Maps
Author: Mark Monmonier,Foreword by H. J. De Blij
Cover: cover
Pages: 186
List Price: $15.00
Published by University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226534219
Table of Contents
Foreword Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Elements of the Map 3: Map Generalization: Little White Lies and Lots of Them 4: Blunders That Mislead 5: Maps That Advertise 6: Development Maps (or, How to Seduce the Town Board) 7: Maps for Political Propaganda 8: Maps, Defense, and Disinformation: Fool Thine Enemy 9: Large-Scale Mapping, Culture, and the National Interest 10: Data Maps: Making Nonsense of the Census 11: Color: Attraction and Distraction 12: Multimedia, Experiential Maps, and Graphic Scripts 13: Epilogue Appendix: Latitude and Longitude Selected Readings for Further Exploration Sources of Illustrations Index
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