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Film, Video Cartographic History of Afghanistan: Early, Modern and Colonial Periods

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Title

  • Cartographic History of Afghanistan: Early, Modern and Colonial Periods

Summary

  • Shah Mahmoud Hanifi discussed the complexity, innovation, redundancy and contradictions in the cartographic history of modern maps of Afghanistan. He focused specifically on 18th and 19th century mapping projects that emanated from British India.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body
  • Library of Congress. Asian Division, sponsoring body
  • Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2019-06-04.

Notes

  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Shah Mahmoud Hanifi.
  • -  Recorded on 2019-06-04.
  • -  Shah Mahmoud Hanifi is professor of history and the founding coordinator of the Middle Eastern Communities and Migrations minor at James Madison University. He is currently writing about the history of cartography, photography and the environment in Afghanistan, drawing upon his expertise in colonial political economy, Orientalism and the history of the Pashto language in that country.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024696478

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Asian Division, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division. Cartographic History of Afghanistan: Early, Modern and Colonial Periods. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-04, 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696478/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division, S. B., Library Of Congress. Asian Division, S. B. & Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division, S. B. (2019) Cartographic History of Afghanistan: Early, Modern and Colonial Periods. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-04. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696478/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, et al. Cartographic History of Afghanistan: Early, Modern and Colonial Periods. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-04, 2019. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024696478/>.