Historia del mundo en 12 mapas / A History of the World in 12 Maps

from JBD1

This book doesn't exactly do what its title suggests it will, but it couldn't possibly do that anyway, so let's just set that aside as hyperbole. Brotton does offer profiles of important maps and atlases from Ptolemy to Google Earth, using each as a jumping-off point to explore an aspect of mapma...

from JBD1

This book doesn't exactly do what its title suggests it will, but it couldn't possibly do that anyway, so let's just set that aside as hyperbole. Brotton does offer profiles of important maps and atlases from Ptolemy to Google Earth, using each as a jumping-off point to explore an aspect of mapma...

from Steve38

A readable but authoritative book using the history of cartography to illustrate and comment on world history. The maps that societies produce are a good way of understanding how they see the world around them. The author has certainly done a good job but, as might be expected, it is a Euro-centr...

from Eyejaybee

Neil MacGregor's recent project "A History of the World in 100 Objects", in which he catalogued a compelling perspective on world history through one hundred artefacts in the British Museum, has spawned a whole new approach. Professor Brotton adapts it here to spin a fascinating history of, among...

from NielsenGW

Maps serve two functions. They give you information-where people have been, places people have mapped, and the names given to those places. They also give you a destination, they let the heart roam over distant lands, and hope for an adventurous future. This information and hope have driven human...