Main entry:

Brotton, Jerry, author.

Title & Author:

A history of the world in twelve maps / Jerry Brotton.

Publication:

London : Allen Lane, 2012.

Description:

xvii, 513 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-482) and index.
Science : Ptolemy's Geography, c. AD 150 -- Exchange : Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith : Hereford Mappamundi, c. 1300 -- Empire : Kangnido world map, 1402 -- Discovery : Martin Waldseemüller, world map, 1507 -- Globalism : Diogo Ribeiro, world map, 1529 -- Toleration : Gerard Mercator, world map, 1569 -- Money : Juan Blaeu, Atlas maior, 1662 -- Nation : the Cassini family, map of France, 1793 -- Geopolitics : Halford Mackinder, 'The geographical pivot of history', 1904 -- Equality : the Peters project, 1973 -- Information : Google earth, 2012 -- Conclusion: The eye of history?

Summary:

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 partial and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power, authority and creativity of particular times and places.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781846140990 (hardcover)
1846140994 (hardcover)
9780141034935
0141034939

Subject:

Cartography History.
Historical geography.
Cartographers History.
Maps, Early.
Cartographie Histoire.
Géographie historique.
Popular Science.
Cartography.
Kartografie
Weltgeschichte
Weltkarte
Kartografi historia.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282045
Call No.: BIB 219185
Status: Available