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Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World (Picturing History)
Jerry Brotton
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| #3833229 in Books | 2013-08-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.66 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| A must read for any early map enthousiast !|By A Customer|This book is refreshing in that it presents new or original relations between historical facts which you might be aware of, but which you come to see in a new light while reading. The reading journey brings you to early Portugese mapmakers, sailors and kings, the Ottoman empire and its relatively sophisticated geograph|From Booklist|Brotton clearly shows the commercial and political pressures that made mapmaking so important during the 1600s; and he shows the geographical, logistic, and printing limitations that made mapmaking d
Trading Territories is a beautifully illustrated book that offers a new account of the status of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world. Focusing on how early European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World—Africa and Southeast Asia—Jerry Brotton contends that the historical preoccupation with Columbus’s “discovery” of the New World in 1492 has tended to obscure the importance of the mapping of ter...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World (Picturing History) | Jerry Brotton. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
