[PDF.82pb] The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire (The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography)

Maps from virtually every culture and period—from Babylonian world maps to Saul Steinberg’s famous New Yorker cover illustration, “View of the World from 9th Avenue”—convey our tendency to see our communities as the center of the world (if not the universe) and, by implication, as superior to anything beyond these immediate boundaries. Mapping has long been a tool by which ruling bodies could claim their entitlement t...

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