Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity.Rehearsing mapping’s past and its multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet attuned. By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning literature on the history of international relations and empire. The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for IR’s state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further erode the myth of Westphalia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:351 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Global Epistemics
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538199169

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Luis Lobo-Guerrero is Professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen.Laura Lo Presti is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Padova.Filipe dos Reis is Assistant Professor of Geopolitics and Connectivity at the University of Groningen.

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This impressive collection of essays offers an important and timely contribution to the study of mapping, empires, and the politics of space, with the novel addition of an explicit focus on connectivity. Particularly useful is the interdisciplinary nature of the volume, given that these issues undoubtedly cross—and bring into question—disciplinary boundaries.

Innehållsförteckning

Series Editor’s NotePreface: Poseidonians and the Tragedy of Mapping European Empires, Luis Lobo-Guerrero1. Mapping and the Making of Imperial European Connectivity, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti and Filipe dos Reis2. Mapping the Invention of the Early ‘Spanish’ Empire, Luis Lobo-Guerrero3. Freezing Cartographic Imaginaries, Jeppe Strandsbjerg4. Surveying in British North America: A Homology of Property and Territory, Kerry Goettlich5. Empires of Science, Science of Empires: Mapping, Centres of Calculation and the Making of Imperial Spaces in Nineteenth Century Germany, Filipe dos Reis6. Representing France’s Syrian “Colony Without a Flag”: Imperial Cartographic Strategies at the Margin of the Peace Conference, Louis Le Douarin7. The Cartographic Lives of the Italian Fascist Empire, Laura Lo PrestiAbout the Editors and Contributors