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Dislocating the Orient British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921
ISBN: PB: 9780226755724, ISBN: HB: 9780226451336, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 45 halftones, 2 line drawings
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 o...
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£32,00
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£45,00
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Blinding Polyphemus Geography and the Models of the World
ISBN: HB: 9780857423788, Seagull Books, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In "Blinding Polyphemus", Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cu...
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£18,50
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