A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Brotton, Jerry
Publisher: Allen Lane
Date Written: 06/09/2012
Year Published: 2012
Pages: 544pp ISBN: 978-1846140990
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places.
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