Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map
| PUBLISHER | University of Chicago Press (04/16/2025) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
Description
Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and political sovereignty, whether past or present. For Territorial Imaginaries, editor Kären Wigen has assembled an impressive slate of experts, spanning disciplines from political science to art history, to contribute perspectives and case studies covering three main themes: mapping before the nation-state, rethinking and critiquing mapping practices, and robust traditions of counter-cartography. Each contributor proposes alternative ways to think about mapping, and the essays are supported with rich archival documentation. Among the far-reaching case studies are Barbara Mundy's cartographic history of Indigenous dispossession in the Americas, Peter Bol's examination of two Chinese maps created five hundred years apart, and Ali Yayc?o?lu's exploration of tensions between top-down and bottom-up mapping of Habsburg and Ottoman border claims.
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ISBN-13:
9780226839004
ISBN-10:
0226839001
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
280
Carton Quantity:
12
Product Dimensions:
8.80 x 0.90 x 10.30 inches
Weight:
2.55 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Price on Product,
Maps,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Technology & Engineering | Cartography
Technology & Engineering | Human Geography
Technology & Engineering | Historical Geography
Dewey Decimal:
304.23
Library of Congress Control Number:
2024033897
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Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and political sovereignty, whether past or present. For Territorial Imaginaries, editor Kären Wigen has assembled an impressive slate of experts, spanning disciplines from political science to art history, to contribute perspectives and case studies covering three main themes: mapping before the nation-state, rethinking and critiquing mapping practices, and robust traditions of counter-cartography. Each contributor proposes alternative ways to think about mapping, and the essays are supported with rich archival documentation. Among the far-reaching case studies are Barbara Mundy's cartographic history of Indigenous dispossession in the Americas, Peter Bol's examination of two Chinese maps created five hundred years apart, and Ali Yayc?o?lu's exploration of tensions between top-down and bottom-up mapping of Habsburg and Ottoman border claims.
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