Language of Power
Lorraine Daston: Cartography, 1 November 2001
The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography
by J.B. Harley, edited by Paul Laxton.
Johns Hopkins, 331 pp., £31, June 2001,0 8018 6566 2 Show More
by J.B. Harley, edited by Paul Laxton.
Johns Hopkins, 331 pp., £31, June 2001,
Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination
by Denis Cosgrove.
Johns Hopkins, 331 pp., £32, June 2001,0 8018 6491 7 Show More
by Denis Cosgrove.
Johns Hopkins, 331 pp., £32, June 2001,
“... globe have been shaped and in turn have shaped Western notions of the Earth and of humanity, Denis Cosgrove is less preoccupied by the notion of maps as ‘power-techniques’ but he, too, is alert to the subtle and not so subtle ways maps and globes send messages and serve interests. From the heart-shaped projections favoured by 16th-century ... ”
