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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.
List of contents
Series Editor's Note
Preface: Poseidonians and the Tragedy of Mapping European Empires, Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Chapter 1: Mapping and the Making of Imperial European Connectivity, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti and Filipe dos Reis
Chapter 2: Mapping the Invention of the Early 'Spanish' Empire, Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Chapter 3: Freezing Cartographic Imaginaries, Jeppe Strandsbjerg
Chapter 4: Surveying in British North America: A Homology of Property and Territory, Kerry Goettlich
Chapter 5: Empires of Science, Science of Empires: Mapping, Centres of Calculation and the Making of Imperial Spaces in Nineteenth Century Germany, Filipe dos Reis
Chapter 6: Representing France's Syrian "Colony Without a Flag": Imperial Cartographic Strategies at the Margin of the Peace Conference, Louis Le Douarin
Chapter 7: The Cartographic Lives of the Italian Fascist Empire, Laura Lo Presti
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Edited by Luis Lobo-Guerrero; Laura Lo Presti and Filipe dos Reis
Summary
This volume explores how maps can be approached to understand the making of European empires.
