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Article: Maps and Politics.(Review)
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- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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By JEREMY BLACK. 188 pp.; maps, ills., refs., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0226054934.
In this book Jeremy Black sets out to show that maps and mapping are inherently political. Black, a historian at the University of Exeter, denies that maps are innocent records of the landscape, claiming instead that they are tools for political interests. This relationship between mapping and political interests has substantial historical roots, although Black largely confines himself to the eighteenth century and later, with an emphasis on twentieth-century examples. Despite this well-established relationship, Black argues that most ...