The Imperial Map
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The Imperial Map
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Author : James R. Akerman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-03
The Imperial Map written by James R. Akerman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03 with History categories.
Maps from virtually every culture and period convey our tendency to see our communities as the centre of the world (if not the universe) and, by implication, as superior to anything beyond our boundaries. This study examines how cartography has been used to prop up a variety of imperialist enterprises.
The New Map Of Empire
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Author : S. Max Edelson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-24
The New Map Of Empire written by S. Max Edelson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-24 with History categories.
In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions before the Revolution.
Mapping An Empire
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Author : Matthew H. Edney
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-05-31
Mapping An Empire written by Matthew H. Edney and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with History categories.
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement " Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."— Publishers Weekly
Dislocating The Orient
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Author : Daniel Foliard
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-04-13
Dislocating The Orient written by Daniel Foliard and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-13 with History categories.
While the twentieth century’s conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With Dislocating the Orient, Daniel Foliard tells the story of how the land was brought into being, exploring how maps, knowledge, and blind ignorance all participated in the construction of this imagined region. Foliard vividly illustrates how the British first defined the Middle East as a geopolitical and cartographic region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through their imperial maps. Until then, the region had never been clearly distinguished from “the East” or “the Orient.” In the course of their colonial activities, however, the British began to conceive of the Middle East as a separate and distinct part of the world, with consequences that continue to be felt today. As they reimagined boundaries, the British produced, disputed, and finally dramatically transformed the geography of the area—both culturally and physically—over the course of their colonial era. Using a wide variety of primary texts and historical maps to show how the idea of the Middle East came into being, Dislocating the Orient will interest historians of the Middle East, the British empire, cultural geography, and cartography.
Re Mapping Centre And Periphery
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Author : Tessa Hauswedell
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2019-03-25
Re Mapping Centre And Periphery written by Tessa Hauswedell and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-25 with History categories.
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. Covering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery investigates the asymmetrical and multi-directional structure of such encounters within Europe as well as in a global context. Exploring subjects from the shores of the Russian Empire to nation-making in Latin America, the international team of contributors demonstrates how, as products of human agency, centre and periphery are conditioned by mutual dependencies; rather than representing absolute categories of analysis, they are subjective constructions determined by a constantly changing discursive context. Through its analysis, the volume develops and implements a conceptual framework for remapping centres and peripheries, based on conceptual history and discourse history. As such, it will appeal to a wide variety of historians, including transnational, cultural and intellectual, and historians of early modern and modern periods.
Mapping The Ottomans
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Author : Palmira Brummett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-19
Mapping The Ottomans written by Palmira Brummett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-19 with History categories.
This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.
Mapping The First World War
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Author : Peter Chasseaud
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2013
Mapping The First World War written by Peter Chasseaud and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Europe categories.
Follow the conflict of World War I from 1914-1918 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary, and photographs More than 150 maps, some previously unpublished, are used here to demonstrate how World War I was fought around the world. Small scale maps show country boundaries and occupied territories, large-scale maps cover the key battles and offensives on all fronts of the war, and trench maps show detailed positions of the front line. Maps from newspapers are also included, as well as battle planning maps and propaganda. Key offensives covered include the Battles of the Marne and Ypres; Tannenberg and the Eastern Front; Verdun and the Somme; the Gallipoli Campaign; Battle of Jutl∧ the Advances to Jerusalem, Damascus, and Baghdad; Vimy Ridge and Passchendae≤ and German 1918 offensives and Allied counter-offensives. Along with the maps, key historical events are described, giving an illustrated history of the war from an expert historian.
Mapping The Cold War
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Author : Timothy Barney
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-04-13
Mapping The Cold War written by Timothy Barney and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-13 with History categories.
In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists navigated conflicts between North and South, East and West. Maps also influenced how identities were formed in a world both shrunk by advancing technologies and marked by expanding and shifting geopolitical alliances and fissures. Pointing to the necessity of how politics and values were “spatialized” in recent U.S. history, Barney argues that Cold War–era maps themselves had rhetorical lives that began with their conception and production and played out in their circulation within foreign policy circles and popular media. Reflecting on the ramifications of spatial power during the period, Mapping the Cold War ultimately demonstrates that even in the twenty-first century, American visions of the world — and the maps that account for them — are inescapably rooted in the anxieties of that earlier era.
Sensible Politics
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Author : William A. Callahan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Sensible Politics written by William A. Callahan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Business & Economics categories.
Visual images are everywhere in international politics. But how are we to understand them? In Sensible Politics, William A. Callahan uses his expertise in theory and filmmaking to explore not only what visuals mean, but also how visuals can viscerally move and connect us in "affective communities of sense." The book's rich analysis of visual images (photographs, film, art) and visual artifacts (maps, veils, walls, gardens, cyberspace) shows how critical scholarship needs to push beyond issues of identity and security to appreciate the creative politics of social-ordering and world-ordering. Here "sensible politics" isn't just sensory, but looks beyond icons and ideology to the affective politics of everyday life. It challenges our Eurocentric understanding of international politics by exploring the meaning and impact of visuals from Asia and the Middle East. Sensible Politics offers a unique approach to politics that allows us to not only think visually, but also feel visually-and creatively act visually for a multisensory appreciation of politics.
Placing Empire
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Author : Kate McDonald
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-08
Placing Empire written by Kate McDonald and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08 with Business & Economics categories.
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