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Mapping European Empire

2015-06-26 Political Science
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Release : 2015-06-26
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Mapping European Empire by : Russell Foster

Download or read book Mapping European Empire written by Russell Foster. This book was released on 2015-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire and maps are mutually reliant phenomena and traceable to the dawn of civilisation. Furthermore, maps retain a supremely authoritative status as unquestioned reflections of reality. In today’s image-saturated world, their influence is more powerful now than at any other time in history. This book argues that in the 21st century we are seeing an imperial renaissance in the European Union (EU), a political organisation which defies categorisation, but whose power and influence grows by the year. It examines the past, present, and future of the EU to demonstrate that empire is not a category of state but rather a collective imagination which reshapes history and appropriates an artificial past to validate the policies of the present and the ambitions of the future. In doing so, this book illuminates the imperial discourse that permeates the mass maps of the modern EU. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of political science, EU Studies, Human Geography, European political history, cartography and visual methodologies and international relations.

Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires

2021-06-29 Political Science
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Release : 2021-06-29
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires by : Luis Lobo-Guerrero

Download or read book Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires written by Luis Lobo-Guerrero. This book was released on 2021-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity. Rehearsing mapping’s past and its multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet attuned. By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning literature on the history of international relations and empire. The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for IR’s state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further erode the myth of Westphalia.

Mapping an Empire

2009-02-15 History
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Release : 2009-02-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Mapping an Empire by : Matthew H. Edney

Download or read book Mapping an Empire written by Matthew H. Edney. This book was released on 2009-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Mapping Europe's Borderlands

2012-05-14 History
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Release : 2012-05-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Mapping Europe's Borderlands by : Steven Seegel

Download or read book Mapping Europe's Borderlands written by Steven Seegel. This book was released on 2012-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and important new book. Mapping Europe’s Borderlands takes the familiar problems of state and nation building in eastern Europe and presents them through an entirely new prism, that of cartography and cartographers. Drawing from sources in eleven languages, including military, historical-pedagogical, and ethnographic maps, as well as geographic texts and related cartographic literature, Seegel explores the role of maps and mapmakers in the East Central European borderlands from the Enlightenment to the Treaty of Versailles. For example, Seegel explains how Russia used cartography in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and, later, formed its geography society as a cover for gathering intelligence. He also explains the importance of maps to the formation of identities and institutions in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania, as well as in Russia. Seegel concludes with a consideration of the impact of cartographers’ regional and socioeconomic backgrounds, educations, families, career options, and available language choices.

Tabulae Imperii Europaei

2013
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Release : 2013
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Book Synopsis Tabulae Imperii Europaei by : Russell David Foster

Download or read book Tabulae Imperii Europaei written by Russell David Foster. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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