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Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World First UK Edition
Author(s): Jerry Brotton (Author)
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication Date: September 1, 2003
- Edition: First UK Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1861890117
- ISBN-13: 9781861890115
Book Description
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. Situating the rise of early modern mapping within the context of the sea-borne commercial adventures of the early maritime empires, Jerry Brotton argues that it was trade, diplomacy, and financial speculation that defined the development of early maps and globes, rather than the disinterested intellectual pursuit of scientific accuracy and objectivity.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“In this outstanding study of maps and mapping, Jerry Brotton reveals a dynamism in the transaction between East and West beyond anything we have previously appreciated.”
— Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary University of London
About the Author
Jerry Brotton is Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and is the co-author of Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West (Reaktion, 2000)
