Maps and Politics - British hardcover

by Jeremy Black

1997, British hardcover edition, Reaktion Books, London, U.K. 188 pages. Outstanding images / illustrations (some color) / maps throughout. This is another title in the publisher's Picturing History series. "We all rely on the apparent accuracy and objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Are the power and purpose of maps inherently political?" The author takes this approach and demonstrates ways that maps are "... not straightforward visual texts, but contain political and politicizing subtexts that need to be read with care."

Genres: Cartography, History, Politics

248 pages, Hardcover

First published February 11, 1998

About the author

Jeremy Black is an English historian, who was formerly a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described by one commentator as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age". He has published on military and political history, including Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and The World in the Twentieth Century (2002).