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Historical Geography and Cartography
Dr. Dennis Reinhartz
University of Texas at Arlington
Fall, 1999
An introduction to cultural and historical geography with an emphasis on
cartography and the use of maps in research and teaching.
Required readings:
Buisseret, David (ed.). From Sea Charts to Satellite Images: Interpreting
North American History Through Maps. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1990. 0-226-07992-9.
East, W. Gordon. The Geography Behind History. New York: W.W. Norton
and Company, 1965. 0-393-00419-8.
Meinig, D. W. Southwest: Three Peoples in Geographical Change. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1971. 0-19-501-289-5.
Reinhartz, Dennis. "Teaching History with Maps: A Graphic Dimension." In Essays
on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History, ed. Dennis Reinhartz
and Stephen E. Maizlish, 79-98. College Station: Texas A&M University Press,
1985 (on reserve in the UTA Library).
Dennis and Judy Reinhartz. Geography Across the Curriculum. Washington,
DC: National Education Association, 1990 (optional, on reserve in the UTA Library).
Thrower, Norman J.W. Maps and Civilization. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1995. 0-226-79972-7.
" As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion, so
History without Geography wandereth as vagrant without certain habitation."
--attributed to Captain John Smith
"
History is geography over time."
--Andrei Lvovich Botvinnik in A Walk in the Woods (1988) by Lee Blessing
January 19-- Introduction.
21--History, geography, and historical geography:
The Geography Behind History, 1-14, 26-196.
26--
28- February 2-
4--Case Study I: The Greater Southwest:
Southwest.
9--
11--
16-
18-
23-
25--Case Study II: Eurasia Today.
March 2--
4-
9-
11- Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures.
23--TEST #1!
25-- The history of cartography:
The Geography Behind History, 15-25.
From Sea Charts to Satellite Images.
Maps and Civilization.
"
Teaching History with Maps."
30--
April 1--
6--
8--
13--
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22-Reading.
27-
29- TEST #2!
May 4-Historical geography and cartography:
All projects and lesson plans due!
6-
11-Final examination (cumulative) on Tuesday, 11-1:30 pm!
In addition to class participation (10%), two tests (40%), and a final examination
(20%) each student will be required to complete successfully an historical
geography project- research paper, cartographic history project, or lesson
plan (30%).
Caveat: In addition to enrolling in this course to satisfy requirements for
a major or minor in history or for a minor in geography, many students also
enroll in this course to satisfy teacher certification requirements in history,
geography, and/or social studies. This is a course in historical geography
and cartography and not in social studies teaching methodology .
Please Note: If you require accommodation based on disability, I would like
to meet you the first week of class to solve any problems.
Please Note: The instructor will not drop students for excessive absences.
Students are responsible for dropping the course before the cut-off date for
drops.
Please Note: The instructor and the University require a high level of scholastic
behavior
and honesty from students in this course. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but
is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit
of any work that was used in whole or in part for another course without obtaining
permission from the instructors in advance, the submission for credit of any
work that is attributable in whole or in part to another person, any act designed
to give unfair advantage to another student, or the attempts to commit such
acts. Students who violate university rules on scholastic dishonesty are subject
to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of failure in the course
and dismissal from the University. Since dishonesty harms the individual, all
students, and the integrity of the university community, policies on scholastic
dishonesty will be strictly enforced.
"
History...is exceedingly difficult to follow without maps...and, it may
be whispered, geography untouched by the human element is dull to an extraordinary
degree, duller even than mapless history, and that the Dodo said, was the
driest thing it knew."
--Sir Charles Arden Close
"
For a child, in love with maps and prints....Oh! How wide the world by lamplight!"
--Baudelaire
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