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Article: The Maps of Glasgow: A History and Cartobibliography to 1865.(Brief Article)
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- The Geographical Journal
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- November 1, 1997
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Blackwell Publishers Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By John N. Moore. Glasgow: Glasgow University Library, 1996, 150 pp. 10.00 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0 85261 555 8
In the early 1920s, Sir Halford Mackinder stated, `Glasgow has changed her geographical environment, has brought the seas to her doors and made tributary distant ores and granaries'. At the same time John A. Brown was compiling one of the first lists of maps of Glasgow. Three-quarters of a century later, during a period of urban renewal and civic reawakening, John Moore has produced a new definitive listing, The Maps of Glasgow.
In his introduction, Moore comments on `Glasgow's new-found confidence' and how this has `led to much being ...