A Historical Atlas of Tibet

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A Historical Atlas of Tibet
ISBN
978-0226732442


A Historical Atlas of Tibet is an atlas and a topographical book by Karl E. Ryavec.

Overview

From the

Tibetan history and gives 49 maps and information about Tibetan areas in the west, the middle, and the east.[1]

Reception

Writing for the Geographical Review, Emily T. Yeh, Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder suggests that the book "[The book] is a stunning achievement. Gorgeously designed, with forty-nine original maps and many more photographs of artwork, temples, and historical and contemporary landscapes."[2]

In a review for

northern China, Mongolia, and Beijing. Third, the author’s methodological approach, basing the maps for the whole historical period largely on a database of religious sites (approximately 2,925 Buddhist and Bonpo temples and monasteries), is comprehensible on account of the interrelationships between densities of temples and monasteries and socio-economic patterns, such as forms of land use, trade routes, etc... Fourth, the maps offer an unprecedented opportunity to study the development of certain macroregions, particularly in terms of their religious and political affiliations, over more or less long historical period."[3]

Tim Chamberlain, a doctoral candidate at Birkbeck, University of London wrote in his review for the London School of Economics, "As the first historical atlas specifically centred on Tibet, this book will undoubtedly come to serve as an invaluable basic reference work for both students and established scholars across a wide array of academic disciplines. It will be of essential use to historians, anthropologists, historical geographers, digital cartographers, archaeologists and scholars of religion and other aspects of Tibetan culture and society."[4]

Nirupama Rao, former Indian diplomat writes in India Today, "...historical Tibet is juxtaposed against a present that is geo-political rather than the geo-civilisational is clear throughout this work."[5]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0226732442
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  2. S2CID 164285821
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  3. ISSN 2471-3716 – via Macalester College
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  4. ^ "Book Review: A Historical Atlas of Tibet by Karl E. Ryavec". LSE Review of Books. 30 October 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
  5. ^ Rao, Nirupama (24 October 2016). "Maps of a lost land". India Today. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
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