Thomas Suarez – författare

A lavishly illustrated and meticulously guided excursion through the mapping of historic Palestine from the earliest record through the early twentieth century. Palestine is as much a region of the earth as it is a place in the psyche of those who mapped it. Author Thomas Suarez is uniquely qualified to address the mapping of this region 'from the river to the sea,' as he is both an authority on the history of cartography and has written extensively on Palestine. Lavishly illustrated, Palestine Mapped guides the reader through the Greek and Roman concepts of Palestine, Islamic mapping, and the European 'Holy Land' mapping that has dominated for half a millennium. But Suarez makes that dominant view part of the story, rather than the 'lens' through which he observes it, setting the book starkly apart from all others on the mapping of the region.

The Israel-Palestine 'conflict' is often understood to be a clash between ethnic groups inhabiting the same land. This book proves something quite different: the violent takeover of Palestine by a European racial-nationalist settler movement, Zionism. Suarez has uncovered documents in the British state archives, many revealed here for the first time, which establish beyond doubt that the use of terror to acquire and keep Palestine for the Zionists was deliberate and sustained. It is a story that continues today with the violence employed by Israel to sustain its regime.

With dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It documents the idea of Southeast Asia as a geographical and cosmological construct, from the earliest of times up until the down of the modern era. using maps, itineraries, sailing instructions, traveler''s tales, religious texts and other contemporary sources, it examines the representation of Southeast Asia, both from the historical perspective of Western exploration and cartography, and also through the eyes of Asian neighbors.Southeast Asia has always occupied a special place in the imaginations of East and West. This book recounts the fascinating story of how Southeast Asia was, quite literally, put on the map, both in cartographic terms and as a literary and imaginative concept.

Take a journey back to the uncharted oceans with the most celebrated European explorers! Interest in Southeast Asian history and culture is higher than ever before. Ancient cartography of Oceania holds mysteries as old as time—were these early ocean maps molded as much by fantasy as fact? Early Mapping of the Pacific bravely delves into all the questions surrounding the history of maps. The Pacific Ocean remained a mystery to mapmakers until the latter part of the eighteenth century. This book traces the European exploration and charting of the vast ocean through a cornucopia of beautiful maps stretching from Japan on the northwest, through Juan Fernandez Island on the southeast, with the various islands of Oceania the primary focus. It follows the history of mapmaking from Classical times up to the turn of the twentieth century. The ancient seafarers who ventured eastward from Asia, and were the Pacific''s true pioneers, left no maps. They still helped make cartography history, thanks to the navigational genius their descendants passed to European visitors. Thus, the Pacific as we now know it was formally born when the colonization of America partitioned the seas between Europe and Asia into two. This gorgeous edition presents nearly 300 rare Asia maps and early prints, compiled by expert Thomas Suarez. Topics addressed include: The Pacific Islands and Their People Mariners, Mapmakers and the Great Ocean The Pacific Evolves after Magellan In the Wake of the Solomon Islands Earliest Mapping of Australia and New Zealand The Age of Enlightenment The Three Voyages of James Cook The Discovery of Tahiti and Hawaii Micronesia, the Elusive Isles Surveyors, Whalers, and Missionaries You, too, can share in the wonder of these explorers'' vast geographical and cultural discoveries, and the voyages that led to them, in this comprehensive cartography book.