Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8x0x10. First edition. Spine slightly faded, minimal wear to corners. 2010 Large Hardcover. 272 pp. Color reproductions of numerous historical examples of timelines throughout. What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. The authors, both accomplished writers and historians, sketch the shifting field of graphic representations of history from the beginning of the print age through the present. They shed light on western views of history and (truncated) on the complex relationship between general ideas about the course of events and the technical efforts to record and connect dates and names in the past. In addition to telling a rich, forgotten story, this book serves as a kind of grammar of historical representation, uncovering the ways in which time has been structured in thought and in images, in the Western tradition. Written for both the academically curious and the general reader, Cartographies of Time provides a set of tools for understanding the evolution and the significance of graphic representations of time both in history and in contemporary culture. (Inventory #: 2348657)