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"A History of the World in Twelve Maps" was published by Allen Lane in 2012 - London, the book is classified in Science genre, it has 513 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: ➤  A History of the World in Twelve Maps
  • Author:
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 513
  • Is Family Friendly: Yes - No Mature Content
  • Publisher: Allen Lane
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  • Publish Location: London
  • Genres: Science

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  • Pagination: ➤  xvii, 513 p., [48] p. of plates

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"A History of the World in Twelve Maps" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Science : Ptolemy's Geography, c. AD 150
  • 2- Exchange : Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154
  • 3- Faith : Hereford Mappamundi, c. 1300
  • 4- Empire : Kangnido world map, 1402
  • 5- Discovery : Martin Waldseemüller, world map, 1507
  • 6- Globalism : Diogo Ribeiro, world map, 1529
  • 7- Toleration : Gerard Mercator, world map, 1569
  • 8- Money : Juan Blaeu, Atlas maior, 1662
  • 9- Nation : the Cassini family, map of France, 1793
  • 10- Geopolitics : Halford Mackinder, 'The geographical pivot of history', 1904
  • 11- Equality : the Peters project, 1973
  • 12- Information : Google earth, 2012
  • 13- Conclusion : the eye of history?

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Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.

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Throughout history, maps have shaped our view of the world and our place in it. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton argues that far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably partial and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power, authority and creativity of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. The book examines the significance of twelve world maps drawn from global history - beginning with the mystical representations of ancient history and ending with the satellite - derived imagery of today. It vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which the maps were made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world- the Jerusalem-centred Christian perspective of the fourteenth-century Herefordmappamundi; the earliest Korean map showing the world including Europe; the first truly globalised world view of the Portuguese Diogo Ribeiro in the early sixteenth century, the Peters projection of the 1970s which aimed to give equality to 'the third world'; and the earth according to Google. Brotton shows how the maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by reading it, we can better understand the world that produced it. Although the way we map our surroundings is once more changing dramatically, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been - but that they continue to recreate and mediate our view of it. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.

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