Mapping for history: the influence of the 7th Field Survey Company's 1917 operation maps on the historiography of the 3rd Battle of Gaza
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Radunzel, Joel Douglas
Issue Date
2019-01-14
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Journal articles
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military cartography , history of cartography , critical cartography , Palestine Campaign , Great War
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Abstract
During Palestine Campaign of World War I, the British Army’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force produced a series of operation maps to track and control the progress of their offensive into Palestine. These maps demonstrated innovation in both their form and function, and they have been referenced and reproduced by both map scholars and military historians ever since. Leaning on J.B. Harley and Matthew Edney’s ideas about critical map history, this essay provides a critical examination of these operation maps to illuminate the sociocultural context of their creation and examines the maps’ influence over the broader historiography of the Palestine Campaign. In doing so it highlights the interdisciplinary value of critical map histories.
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Joel Radunzel, "Mapping for history: the influence of the 7th Field Survey Company’s 1917 operation maps on the historiography of the 3rd Battle of Gaza," Cartography and Geographic Information Science 46, no. 6 (2019): 502-517.
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Cartography and Geographic Information Society