Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map - Hardcover

 
9780226839004: Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226839001 ISBN 13: 9780226839004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2025

Synopsis

Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions.
 
This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and political sovereignty, whether past or present. For Territorial Imaginaries, editor Kären Wigen has assembled an impressive slate of experts, spanning disciplines from political science to art history, to contribute perspectives and case studies covering three main themes: mapping before the nation-state, rethinking and critiquing mapping practices, and robust traditions of counter-cartography.
 
Each contributor proposes alternative ways to think about mapping, and the essays are supported with rich archival documentation. Among the far-reaching case studies are Barbara Mundy’s cartographic history of Indigenous dispossession in the Americas, Peter Bol’s examination of two Chinese maps created five hundred years apart, and Ali Yaycıoğlu’s exploration of tensions between top-down and bottom-up mapping of Habsburg and Ottoman border claims.

 
 

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About the Author

Kären Wigen is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226839001
ISBN 13 
9780226839004
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
280
Editor
Wigen Kären