A History of the World in Twelve Maps Condition:Well Read celebratory fiction

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps Condition:Well Read celebratory fictionThroughout 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. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the