9 10 258 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/d7b70159d5478b1f720b4407ad9a75d6.jpg 0887f15118725594a1a5a8fa30e373c9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tourism, Proximity and British Perceptions of France and Germany Before the First World War Description An account of the resource This collection explores British perceptions of France and Germany before the First World War, and how they were influenced by proximity, both in terms of simple distance and in terms of how easy it was to travel there. There are four elements (one of which isn't a historical map). <br />The first is a graphical representation of the quickest routes from London to different places in Europe, as advised by Thomas Cook and Son travel agents in 1913, and how long it would take to travel to each destination. These graphs give us a sense of how far places in Europe actually were from London in 1913 (admittedly a limited sense given I haven’t found useful information on the prices of these journeys, or how many times a day they ran). They also show which places routes ran through, thus showing which places travelllers would be familiar with simply by having to frequently pass through.<br />The second map is a cartoon map of Europe made in 1900. It supposedly shows the different countries responding to Britain’s war in South Africa. It is interesting for how France—at the time far from an ally—is shown as far less threatening than Germany, which in turn is less threatening than Russia. It is interesting to apply information from the previous element to this one (if we assume that travel patterns in Europe had not radically changed between 1900 and 1913). The relative proximity of France, and number of routes through Paris, perhaps meant that more people had been there, and did not find it excessively foreign or sinister, while the distantness of Russia (Moscow is 102 hours from London) arguably result in it being depicted as a terrifying, autocratic octopus (a depiction surely grounded in common British stereotypes and attitudes). <br />The third element seeks to answer a question posed by the comparison of the first and second. The first element shows that Germany was not very distant, and that many routes passed through it, especially through Cologne. Yet the second shows that Germany seemed to be more foreign and threatening than France. The third element is a map of Europe made in 1880. It labels western Germany—the Rhineland that accounts for so many nodes in the first element—“Germany,” and the rest of the German Empire “Prussia.” While it was probably the result of parsimonious atlas makers reusing pre-unification plates, the existence of such a map (and of other examples, which are hyperlinked), suggests that the British maintained a mental distinction between the Germany they encountered and the threatening, militaristic Prussia they did not. Either that map echoes a distinction that was already salient, or it and others helped to create or maintain such a distinction. It is no accident that Germany is represented in element two by the Kaiser eagerly stockpiling battleships, echoing a pre-unification cartoon map of <a href="http://maps.bpl.org/id/16826">Prussia</a>, in which that state is embodied by the Kaiser and an armed and dangerous Bismark.<br />The last element is a fragment of a map of Paris from an English language guidebook published in 1878. It gives us a loose sense of what sort of places would have grounded British perceptions of the French capital. Specifically, government buildings feature prominently, suggesting that visiting Paris in some way entailed visiting the French state, and perhaps coming to understand it as similar to the British state. One might wonder whether visitors to Berlin would have had the same response to the German state, had many people visited Berlin. Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital Included in a book. Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part As this map was extracted from a digitized copy of a guidebook, it is not in any formal map collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Baedeker Map of Western Paris Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wagner & Debes, Leipzig Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Karl Baedeker Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1878 Relation A related resource Included in Karl Baedeker, <em>Paris and its Environs: With Routes from London to Paris, and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland, Handbook for Travellers</em> (Leipsic [sic.]: Karl Baedeker, 1878). Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Foldout map from a guidebook Description An account of the resource This is half of a map of Paris included in Baedeker's 1878 English-language guidebook to the Paris region. It gives us a sense of what British visitors to Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries would have seen -- after all, this guidebook and others like it directed them. Certain buildings are highlighted, along with railway lines, parks, rivers, neighbourhoods and major roads. Interestingly, among the buildings picked out, a large number have some government connection, such as the "Ecole Militaire," "C. [cours] Legislatif" and "Palais de l'Elysees." (There are also a lot of churches). It seems it was a convention to mark out public buildings on urban maps -- an <a href="http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~31397~1150344:Paris-?sort=Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort&amp;qvq=q:List_No%3D%275371.037%27%22%2B;sort:Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&amp;mi=0&amp;trs=1">1883 atlas map</a> of Paris does the same -- but whether or not the mapmaker was deliberately directing tourists to these buildings or just following a convention is not really important: the map was used as a tool, and even if tourists strenuously avoided such buildings, they would have had to use them to navigate and thus anchor their sense of location to such buildings. Thus it seems tourists in Paris would in most cases encounter the symbolically-important buildings of the French government, and perhaps they would link those government buildings to their overall impression of Paris. Perhaps they would have found the government buildings impressive or unthreatening. Even if they found the buildings sinister and exotic, their view of the institutions contained within them would be tempered by the surrounding city, which the buildings represented. After all, capital cities are often used to refer metonymically to governments.<br />Indeed, the streets marked out on the map constitute a catalogue of great French people (such as Montaigne) and battles (such as Wagram). The experience of visiting Paris perhaps allowed English visitors to view France's history from that country's perspective, rather than from their own, for example by seeing how victories over Britain's allies (such as at Iena, Wagram, Eylau) were commemorated in France much as British victories over France (such as Waterloo) were memorialised in British street names. Additionally, these patterns of street naming meant that British visitors may have connected these people and events with the places they visited, so the touristic appeal of Paris in some way could have defanged French history. Type The nature or genre of the resource Historical Tourist Map Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant City Level (though because of how it was digitized, this file is only half of a larger map of the whole of Paris) 1870s 1878 guidebook Paris tourism urban map https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/2d0ae2c74b7302244222d154073623fe.jpeg c3f4f80e2ec03204468d503e1020ce52 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greg Picard's Final Project Description An account of the resource A comparison of maps of Europe from England and France during the Napoleonic Wars Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonne's Map of Charles XII's Campaigns Description An account of the resource This is a map created for a French historical Atlas depicting the war campaigns of Charles XII of Sweden. The map was created in roughly 1805 and it depicts a war in the late seventeenth century. Unlike the other maps, this map depicts an earlier time period than 1805 Europe. However, like the contemporary French maps, it shows France's territory extending all the way to the Rhine River. This was not an accurate depiction of France at the time, as the territory of Belgium was ruled by many different factions, including France. It seems as if this map is establishing a historical justification for France's current annexation of Belgium. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1805 Language A language of the resource French https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/09872e76fa13bd6311f84bc39568e33e.jpg b8b8f8ff1f602f41166270fbec8a12d0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greg Picard's Final Project Description An account of the resource A comparison of maps of Europe from England and France during the Napoleonic Wars Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Charles Francois Delamarche URL or Unique Identifier http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~28257~1120266:L-Europe-?sort=Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort&qvq=q:List_No%3D%270421.004%27%22%2B;sort:Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=0&trs=1 Date Published 1800 Date Depicted 1800 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Delamarche's Map of Europe Description An account of the resource Here is a map created in Paris in 1800 by cartographer Charles Francois Delemarche. It was created for an educational atlas for children, and this map appears to be a political map of Europe. Focussing on France, Delamarche shows the boundary of France extending all the way west to the Rhine River,a boundary that the first English map examined in this collection does not show. Delamarche also does not label any region on the map as Belgium, however he does include a small dotted line crossing the North of France, separating what would be France and Belgium. However, these two modern countries are united by the solid colored border lines surrounding every country. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles Francois Delamarche Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available L'Europe Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1800 Language A language of the resource French https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/012435eb00222847376b609d7af6cdda.jpg 6e91f31e289fc523087a4b9e75598350 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greg Picard's Final Project Description An account of the resource A comparison of maps of Europe from England and France during the Napoleonic Wars Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Patteson's Map of Europe Description An account of the resource This is a map of Europe created in 1804 by Englishman Edward Patteson. It was created as part of an Atlas that depicted both Ancient and Modern Europe. So on this map, modern borders between nations are depicted, but Patteson accompanies many land areas with the so-called Roman names for them. For example, Turkey is accompanied with the Roman subtitle "Asia Minor." What is of note for my project is that this map includes Belgium as part of France, but not the Netherlands, and French maps at the time depict the boundary of France extending to the Rhine River, which is not the case with this map. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edward Patteson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1804 Language A language of the resource English 1804 Belgium English Europe France Netherlands https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/276113bf6761337d9d43a3b889bfc7f0.jpg e9b93832281753d58cb1dc209bdfc88b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Britain Colonial Mapping of Western Palestine in the Ottoman period Description An account of the resource The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) of Great Britain conducted an extensive survey of Western Palestine from 1872-1877, during the Ottoman period. While the fund was headed by religious figures and academics, there was also involvement from the British government. Essentially, the religious and academic associations of the fund may have served as a front to allow the British government to collect intelligence on the region. For example, the British Foreign Office had documented involvement in the production and funding of the survey project, which increased with the Russo-Turkian War (1877-78). This survey was the most detailed and technologically advanced to date and was ultimately employed by the British in their invasion of Palestine in WWI. In addition to its attention to topographic detail, this mapping project is notable for its area of focus. Unlike other maps produced by Western colonial powers at the time, such as France and Germany, this map focuses exclusively on an area west of the Jordan river. Uncannily, its borders resemble those of the future British Mandate (1920-1948). The survey is also careful to include the significant holy sites of the New Testament. After the maps production, the British Foreign Office required that the PEF delay the publication of the maps for a year to control the dispersal of sensitive intelligence information. Thus, these maps should be evaluated both as products of academic and religious scholarship and as tools in the British colonial enterprise. Subject The topic of the resource Detailed geographical survey of Western Palestine with additional layers depicting religious holy sites, Arabic places Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Conder, C.R. (Claude Reignier) Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert) Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital index map Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part David Rumsey Historical Map Collection URL or Unique Identifier http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~240963~5512342?qvq=q%3Apalestine%2Bexploration%2Bfund%3Bsort%3Apub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&mi=3&trs=58 Date Published 1880 Date Depicted 1872-1877 Engraver Ordinance Survey Office Call Number 6930.000 Format notes Scale 1: 620,000 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Topographical and Geographical Terms in Arabic (and English Description An account of the resource This map presents the place names of western Palestine in Arabic and explains their meaning in a key on the side. It also marks the location of Arabic villages, churches and mosques. It is a notable that this map is included to the Palestine Exploration Fund Survey because it acknowledges the development of an indigenous culture in the region since the time of the new testament. The New Testament seems to color the surveyors' interaction with the land in the remainder of the collection so I hope to study the ways that it has seeped into this map as well. Notably, unlike the other maps in the survey, this map appears less technologically advanced and does not include topography lines. It might be less useful as an orienting tool for the military and might instead represent the academic interests behind the survey. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant The region of Ottoman-era Palestine west of the Jordan River arabic place names arabic transcribed to english camp greenery infrastructure key numbers religious buildings vehicles water bodies https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/18657bdfa1b82a910bda51cd0a2010ac.jpg e3bb59d4921c0c80a9da52212adaa446 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Britain Colonial Mapping of Western Palestine in the Ottoman period Description An account of the resource The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) of Great Britain conducted an extensive survey of Western Palestine from 1872-1877, during the Ottoman period. While the fund was headed by religious figures and academics, there was also involvement from the British government. Essentially, the religious and academic associations of the fund may have served as a front to allow the British government to collect intelligence on the region. For example, the British Foreign Office had documented involvement in the production and funding of the survey project, which increased with the Russo-Turkian War (1877-78). This survey was the most detailed and technologically advanced to date and was ultimately employed by the British in their invasion of Palestine in WWI. In addition to its attention to topographic detail, this mapping project is notable for its area of focus. Unlike other maps produced by Western colonial powers at the time, such as France and Germany, this map focuses exclusively on an area west of the Jordan river. Uncannily, its borders resemble those of the future British Mandate (1920-1948). The survey is also careful to include the significant holy sites of the New Testament. After the maps production, the British Foreign Office required that the PEF delay the publication of the maps for a year to control the dispersal of sensitive intelligence information. Thus, these maps should be evaluated both as products of academic and religious scholarship and as tools in the British colonial enterprise. Subject The topic of the resource Detailed geographical survey of Western Palestine with additional layers depicting religious holy sites, Arabic places Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert) Saunders, Trelawney Engraver Stanford's Geographical Establishment Ordnance Survey Office Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Call Number 6930.037 Date Published 1882 Date Depicted (1872-1877) and/or biblical Israel URL or Unique Identifier http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~241003~5512446?qvq=q%3Apalestine%2Bexploration%2Bfund%3Bsort%3Apub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&amp;mi=36&amp;trs=58 Format notes Scale 1: 168,960 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Western Palestine Illustrating The Old Testament, The Apocrypha and Josephus. Description An account of the resource This map layer depicts Western Palestine at the time of the Old Testament. It sources its information primarily in the book of Joshua which chronicles the Israelites conquering and settling the Holy Land. However, there are additional place names, not mentioned in the Old Testament, that extracted from Josephus’s commentary. Potentially, the author also used Josephus’s text as a lense onto the Old Testament. Joesphus’s commentary on the Old Testament was famously translated by English Theologian William Whiston in the early 18th century and it itself included some maps. There is some ambiguity as to the exact time period this map aims to depict. The key explains symbolism for biblical events that are centuries apart, for example delineating the arrangement of governances during the reign of King Solomon and also tinting and coloration to indicate the tribal territories which were captured in the Assyrian and Babylonian Captivity. Another focus of the map, holy places and stations (for sacrificial worship) are marked through symbols and color. Because the Palestine Exploration Fund sponsored a survey limited to western Palestine, the map is limited in scope and is only able to include six of the tribal allotments represented in the Old Testament. This suggests that reconstructing the holy land of the Old Testament was not the primary goal of the survey. It is important to note that the cartographer’s depiction of the land allotments to each of the twelve Judean tribes and also various Kohanite and Levite cities was not the first of its kind and indeed follows a classical style that can be traced back to the middle ages. However, this map layer is unique for its merging of religious historical heritage with cutting edge topographic and demographic data. There is some ambiguity as to the exact time period this map aims to depict. The key explains symbolism for biblical events that are centuries apart, for example delineating the arrangement of governances during the reign of King Solomon and also tinting and coloration to indicate the tribal territories which were captured in the Assyrian and Babylonian Captivity. Another focus of the map, holy places and stations (for sacrificial worship) are marked through symbols and color. Because the Palestine Exploration Fund sponsored a survey limited to western Palestine, the map is limited in scope and is only able to include six of the tribal allotments represented in the Old Testament. This suggests that reconstructing the holy land of the Old Testament was not the primary goal of the survey. It is important to note that the cartographer’s depiction of the land allotments to each of the twelve Judean tribes and also various Kohanite and Levite cities was not the first of its kind and indeed follows a classical style that can be traced back to the middle ages. Nevertheless, However, this map layer is unique for its merging of religious historical heritage with cutting edge topographic and demographic data. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert) Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Composite Map Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant The region of Ottoman-era Palestine west of the Jordan River biblical text key latitude/longitude lines the Holy Oblation tribal allotments https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/96f4a7e5fe40e6e76876be6de5c687f8.jpg e22f2a516855857ce34175706414a56d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Britain Colonial Mapping of Western Palestine in the Ottoman period Description An account of the resource The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) of Great Britain conducted an extensive survey of Western Palestine from 1872-1877, during the Ottoman period. While the fund was headed by religious figures and academics, there was also involvement from the British government. Essentially, the religious and academic associations of the fund may have served as a front to allow the British government to collect intelligence on the region. For example, the British Foreign Office had documented involvement in the production and funding of the survey project, which increased with the Russo-Turkian War (1877-78). This survey was the most detailed and technologically advanced to date and was ultimately employed by the British in their invasion of Palestine in WWI. In addition to its attention to topographic detail, this mapping project is notable for its area of focus. Unlike other maps produced by Western colonial powers at the time, such as France and Germany, this map focuses exclusively on an area west of the Jordan river. Uncannily, its borders resemble those of the future British Mandate (1920-1948). The survey is also careful to include the significant holy sites of the New Testament. After the maps production, the British Foreign Office required that the PEF delay the publication of the maps for a year to control the dispersal of sensitive intelligence information. Thus, these maps should be evaluated both as products of academic and religious scholarship and as tools in the British colonial enterprise. Subject The topic of the resource Detailed geographical survey of Western Palestine with additional layers depicting religious holy sites, Arabic places Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Conder, C.R. (Claude Reignier) Kitchener, H.R. (Horatio Herbert) Engraver Ordinance Survey Office Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital Survey Map Format notes Scale 3/8 inch to one mile of 1:168,960. Digital Repository David Rumsey Collection Call Number 6930.058 URL or Unique Identifier http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~241026~5512449:Composite--Western-Palestine-Natura?sort=pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_date&qvq=q:talmud;sort:pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_date;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=57&trs=58 Date Depicted 1872-1877 (and/or New Testament Era sites) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Western Palestine Illustrating the New Testament, also the Talmud and Josephus. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Palestine Exploration Fund Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Composite Map Subject The topic of the resource At first glance, this map appears 'modern' in all but the names of places, depicting a geographical features that are identical to those of the other pieces in the Palestine collection. However, this map layer presents New Testament Era place names superimposed over the 1870 map. The cartographer has pulled geographic information from the Talmud and Josephus, in addition to the New Testament to illustrate the layout of the "Land of Judea" after the birth of Jesus. It is part of a collection of British Survey maps, authored by the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1880. This survey collection was the dominant source of information for the British military invasion of Palestine in WWI and continued to have importance for scientific and ethnographic research thereafter. This map layer highlights how the survey was in fact designed by the PEF to encompass historic christian religious sites. As a contrast, one might compare this map layer with the Old Testament map layer which does not succeed to cover certain areas depicted in the Old Testament because of the survey’s limits. This aids in the conclusion that the PEF survey was intended for archeological, academic and religious use. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant The region of Ottoman-era Palestine west of the Jordan River biblical place names blank space Judea messianic mountain range Samaria topography lines https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/35246942c379ec039f88a52e9231aeab.jpg 7b1c706aeb20760706830e4d922ab49f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource More Known Unknowns: Mapping Environmental Damage from the Chernobyl Disaster Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karta radiat︠s︡ionnoĭ obstanovki na territorii evropeĭskoĭ chasti SSSR po sostoi︠a︡nii︠u︡ na dekabrʹ 1990 goda : plotnostʹ zagri︠a︡znenii︠a︡ mestnosti stront︠s︡iem-90 : masshtab 1:500 000 (part 1: Gomel') Description An account of the resource This map shows the spread of Strontium-90 contamination in the area of eastern Belarus and western Russia surrounding Gomel' in December 1990. It is one of a set of four Soviet-produced maps showing strontium contamination from the same point in time. They were produced by the State Committee for Hydrometrology and Control of Natural Resources of the Soviet Union, which was in charge of producing contamination maps twice a year. An earlier version of the map served as the basis for the IAEA's map, in terms of contamination data. However, the two maps are very different in their portrayals of natural features, roads, and other basic elements of the map. In the process of verifying Soviet environmental monitoring data, the IAEA scientists instead often were faced with the task of reconciling two (or more) different basic accounts of the territory itself, and the level of contamination it contained. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Institut prikladnoĭ geofiziki imeni akademika E.K. Fedorova Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GUGK SSSR Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 2056 Belarus Cesium-137 contamination radiation https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/9ab966ef13da462aeba0c83fdf3c1828.jpg b6d6b4fe26f4635bdb96728bfdc50181 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource More Known Unknowns: Mapping Environmental Damage from the Chernobyl Disaster Map layer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chernobyl Radiation Map CS-137 Today Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Chernobyl Foundation Description An account of the resource This map portrays soil contamination on the territory of Ukraine with cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, as of April 2011. Cesium-137 has a half-life of approximately 30 years (which means that 30 years after its release, half of it will have degraded and become non-radioactive). While it is not the source of the most enduring threat from the accident (other isotopes have half-lives of up to a quarter of a million years), it is one of the main contaminants affecting humans. While my project focuses on the use of environmental monitoring data to define the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a 30-km radius around the accident site, the additional information provided by this map is valuable in that it shows the compromise inherent in the construction of the Zone, and the generalizations about risk that it implies. The map makes it clear that the bulk of the contamination lies closest to the accident site, but it is also made clear that other regions are by no means exempt from the threat of contamination. Additionally, by providing no information about contamination outside Ukraine, it defines the environmental burden of the accident's aftermath as a Ukrainian issue. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chernobyl Foundation Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 2011 Cesium-137 Chernobyl contamination radiation Ukraine https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/5411ebda94ecc1bea4f7267b21bc99ab.jpg 342bae21cb48afd675276a2e00d46ac2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource More Known Unknowns: Mapping Environmental Damage from the Chernobyl Disaster Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Skhema plotnosti zagri︠a︡znenii︠a︡ t︠s︡eziem-137 s zapasom [bolʹshe] 1 ki/km² territorii evropeĭskoĭ chasti Rossii : po sostoi︠a︡nii︠u︡ na 30 dekabri︠a︡ 1991 g. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Izrael', Iu. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Description An account of the resource The map shown here, produced by Yurii Izrael', who was also in charge of producing Soviet contamination maps, was produced a year after the larger Soviet maps in this exhibit. However, it shows a subtle but unmistakeable political shift for the immediate post-Soviet period: rather than a map of the Soviet Union, this is a contamination map of Russia. In the post-Soviet period, the Soviet successor states were faced with the task of managing the long-term effects of environmental disasters that were arguably the fault of governments that no longer existed. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GUGK USSR