A History of the World in Twelve Maps

By: Jerry Brotton

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: History,

ISBN: 9780141034935

SKU: BE500722919447

Pages: 544

Description: 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. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age.