The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History

by Arthur Jay Klinghoffer (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $83.37

  Examines the world perceptions of various civilizations and the ways in which maps have been formulated to serve the agenda of cartographers and their patrons. This book also analyses the decline of sovereignty, the spread of globalisation, the reassertion of ethnic identity, and how these trends affect contemporary mapmaking.