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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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Decolonizing the Map Cartography from Colony to Nation
ISBN: HB: 9780226422787, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 121 halftones, 1 table
Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independen...
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£49,00
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Disease Maps Epidemics on the Ground
ISBN: HB: 9780226449357, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
344 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 2 tables, 106 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line illus.
In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea – that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the...
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£36,00
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