The power of projections : how maps reflect global politics and history
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.
History
1 online resource (xv, 192 pages) : maps
9780313082511, 0313082510
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1. The Cartographer's Mirror
Instruments of Power
2. Cultural Factors
3. Symbols of Authority
4. Sleight of Hand
5. In the Eye of the Beholder
Worldviews
6. Completing the Circle
7. New Directions
8. The Geography of Empire
9. Geopolitics
10. Defending the Western Hemisphere
11. Cold War
The Cartographic Revolution
12. Social Protest and Deconstruction
13. Rearranging the Pieces
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010