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Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartogr
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By developing the broadest and most inclusive definition of the term "map" ever adopted in the history of cartography, this inaugural volume of the History of C
Mapping the Ottomans
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Authors: Palmira Brummett
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This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.
The Darker Side of the Renaissance
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An exploration of the role of the book, the map, and the European concept of literacy in the conquest of the New World
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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“In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of ‘cartography’ to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps.”