London through rose-colored graphics: Visual rhetoric and information graphic design in Charles Booth's maps of London poverty

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 353-381

  Kimball, Miles ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 68149165828     PISSN: 00472816     EISSN: 15413780     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/K561-40P2-5422-PTG2     Document Type: Article

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