Journeys across Blankness
Jonathan Parry: Mapping the Middle East, 19 October 2017
Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921
by Daniel Foliard.
Chicago, 336 pp., £45, April 2017,978 0 226 45133 6 Show More
by Daniel Foliard.
Chicago, 336 pp., £45, April 2017,
“... of all our hopes.’ Just what the archbishop meant by this is one of the questions tackled by Daniel Foliard in his rich book on the history and meaning of the various mapping exercises undertaken by the British in the region that by 1920 was called the Middle East. Foliard rightly criticises anyone who interprets ... ”
