Trading Territories :Mapping the Early Modern World

4.07 ( 15 Ratings by Goodreads)
Trading Territories

Trading Territories :Mapping the Early Modern World

(Author)
4.07 (15 Ratings by Goodreads)
paperback
Published: 12 November, 2018
Standard worldwide delivery by Fri, June 19 - Wed, June 24
Order within 0
Condition: NEW
$29.87
Price includes shipping
Available 2 in stock
- +
Add to basket Wishlist This
FREE Returns within 30 days
More Details

Popular Books by Jerry Brotton

View All Books by Jerry Brotton
This Orient Isle
This Orient Isle
Jerry Brotton
$17.92
New
Add to basket
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Jerry Brotton
$8.19 $20.00
Used
Add to basket
Four Points of the Compass
Four Points of the Compass
Jerry Brotton
$9.54 $14.66
Used
Add to basket
Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell
Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell
Jerry Brotton
$18.54
New
Add to basket
The Renaissance
The Renaissance
Jerry Brotton
$13.71
New
Add to basket
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Jerry Brotton
$9.74 $26.68
Used
Add to basket
The Sale of the Late King's Goods
The Sale of the Late King's Goods
Jerry Brotton
$8.34 $21.33
Used
Add to basket
The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Jerry Brotton
$6.40 $20.00
Used
Add to basket
Talking Maps
Talking Maps
Jerry Brotton
$46.05 $46.69
New
Add to basket
The Renaissance Bazaar
The Renaissance Bazaar
Jerry Brotton
$18.78 $22.66
Used
Add to basket

Description

Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World –Africa and Southeast Asia – this book shows how the historical preoccupation with Columbus’s ‘discovery’ of the New World of America in 1492 obscured the ongoing importance of mapping territories that have since been defined as ‘eastern’, especially those in the Muslim world. In this book, now available in paperback and updated with a new preface by the author, Jerry Brotton shows that trade and diplomacy defined the development of maps and globes in this period, far more than the disinterested pursuit of scientific accuracy and objectivity, and challenges our preconceptions about not just maps, but also the history and geography of what we call East and West.
See more

More Details

Type Book
ISBN13 9781780239293
ISBN10 1780239297
Number Of Pages 208
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Reaktion Books
Format paperback
Edition 2nd edition
See More +

Media Reviews

`A beautifully illustrated account of the status, construction and purposes of maps in the Early Modern world.' - History Today; `Jerry Brotton's elegant Trading Territories shows how historically maps were about facilitating trade and celebrating (and exerting) influence.' - The Independent

Show more

GoodReads Reviews

Author's Bio

Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and a leading expert in the history of cartography. He presented the BBC4 series Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession in 2010, and is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books, including Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West (Reaktion, 2000), co-written with Lisa Jardine, and the bestselling and prize-winning A History of the World in Twelve Maps (2012).

Show more