Brotton Jerry: A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: 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, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In…