History of the World in Twelve Maps (2012) (edit title/settings)

Louisa van der Luyden edited the table of contents of History of the World in Twelve Maps Saturday, February 9, 2013.

• List of Figures
  List of Illustrations

  Introduction
  1 Science: Ptolemy’s Geography, c.ADc. AD 150
  2 Exchange: Al-Idrisi, AD 1154
  3 Faith: Hereford Mappamundi, c.ADc. AD 1300
  4 Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402
  5 Discovery: Martin Waldseemüller, World Map, 1507
  6 Globalism: Diogo Ribeiro, World Map, 1529
  7 Toleration: Gerard Mercator, World Map, 1569
  8 Money: Joan Blaeu, Atlas maior, 1662
  9 Nation: The Cassini Family, Map of France, 1793
  10 Geopolitics: Halford Mackinder, ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’, 1904
  11 Equality: The Peters Projection, 1973
  12 Information: Google Earth, 2012
  Conclusion: The Eye of History?

  Notes
  Acknowledgements
  Index

Louisa van der Luyden edited the first edition of History of the World in Twelve Maps Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

• changed the language: English
• changed the country: United Kingdom
• changed the publication date: September 6, 2012
• changed the ISBN: 9781846140990

Louisa van der Luyden edited the first sentence of History of the World in Twelve Maps Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

• In 1881, the Iraqi-born archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered a small fragment of a 2,500-year-old cuneiform clay tablet in the ruins of the ancient Babylonian city of Sippar, today known as Tell Abu Habbah, on the south-west outskirts of modern-day Baghdad.

Louisa van der Luyden edited the description of History of the World in Twelve Maps Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

• 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, world maps 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 this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world - whether the Jerusalem-centred Christian perspective of the 14th century Hereford Mappa Mundi or the Peters projection of the 1970s which aimed to give due weight to 'the third world'.

  Although the way we map our surroundings is once more changing dramatically, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been - but that they continue to make arguments and propositions about the world, and to recreate, shape and mediate our view of it. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.

Louisa van der Luyden edited the table of contents of History of the World in Twelve Maps Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

• <i>ListList of Figures
  List of Illustrations</i>Illustrations

  Introduction
  1 Science: Ptolemy’s <i>Geography</i>,Geography, c.AD 150
  2 Exchange: Al-Idrisi, AD 1154
  3 Faith: Hereford <i>Mappamundi</i>,Mappamundi, c.AD 1300
  4 Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402
  5 Discovery: Martin Waldseemüller, World Map, 1507
  6 Globalism: Diogo Ribeiro, World Map, 1529
  7 Toleration: Gerard Mercator, World Map, 1569
  8 Money: Joan Blaeu, <i>Atlas maior</i>,Atlas maior, 1662
  9 Nation: The Cassini Family, Map of France, 1793
  10 Geopolitics: Halford Mackinder, ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’, 1904
  11 Equality: The Peters Projection, 1973
  12 Information: Google Earth, 2012
  Conclusion: The Eye of History?

  <i>NotesNotes
  Acknowledgements
  Index</i>Index

Louisa van der Luyden edited the table of contents of History of the World in Twelve Maps Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

• <i>List of Figures
  List of Illustrations</i>

  Introduction
  1 Science: Ptolemy’s <i>Geography</i>, c.AD 150
  2 Exchange: Al-Idrisi, AD 1154
  3 Faith: Hereford <i>Mappamundi</i>, c.AD 1300
  4 Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402
  5 Discovery: Martin Waldseemüller, World Map, 1507
  6 Globalism: Diogo Ribeiro, World Map, 1529
  7 Toleration: Gerard Mercator, World Map, 1569
  8 Money: Joan Blaeu, <i>Atlas maior</i>, 1662
  9 Nation: The Cassini Family, Map of France, 1793
  10 Geopolitics: Halford Mackinder, ‘The Geographical Pivot of History’, 1904
  11 Equality: The Peters Projection, 1973
  12 Information: Google Earth, 2012
  Conclusion: The Eye of History?

  <i>Notes
  Acknowledgements
  Index</i>

Shelfari approved its own request to combine 2 books, including History of the World in Twelve Maps, Monday, December 17, 2012.

Shelfari submitted a request to combine 2 books, including History of the World in Twelve Maps, Monday, December 17, 2012.

Punxsutawney Paul approved Liothe’s request to change the contributors of History of the World in Twelve Maps Wednesday, September 26, 2012.

• Added a contributor: Jerry Brotton: (Primary Author)

Liothe edited the first edition of History of the World in Twelve Maps Friday, September 14, 2012.

• changed the publisher: Allen Lane
• changed the page count: 514