Mapping the Middle East / Zayde Antrim.
2018
GA1340.M53 A58 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Mapping the Middle East / Zayde Antrim.
Author
Antrim, Zayde, author.
ISBN
9781780238500 (hardcover)
1780238509 (hardcover)
1780238509 (hardcover)
Published
London : Reaktion Books, 2018.
Language
English
Description
333 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Call Number
GA1340.M53 A58 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
526.0956 23
Summary
Mapping the Middle East explores the many perspectives from which people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus river valleys over the past millennium. By analysing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a world region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. Indeed, maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, coinciding with the eras of European colonialism and the rise of the nation-state, have obscured this deeper past and constrained future possibilities. Mapping the Middle East is organized chronologically to contextualize and interpret compelling maps from each period. Chapters address the medieval `Realm of Islam', the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire, French and British colonial mapping over the long nineteenth century, national mapping traditions in modern Turkey, Iran and Israel/Palestine, and alternative geographies in twentieth- and twenty-first-century maps. Vivid colour illustrations allow readers to follow the argument on the surface of the maps. Rather than a conventional history of cartography, Mapping the Middle East is an incisive critique of the changing relationship between maps and belonging in a dynamic world region over the past thousand years.
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Mapping the Middle East explores the many perspectives from which people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus river valleys over the past millennium. By analysing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a world region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. Indeed, maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, coinciding with the eras of European colonialism and the rise of the nation-state, have obscured this deeper past and constrained future possibilities. Mapping the Middle East is organized chronologically to contextualize and interpret compelling maps from each period. Chapters address the medieval `Realm of Islam', the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire, French and British colonial mapping over the long nineteenth century, national mapping traditions in modern Turkey, Iran and Israel/Palestine, and alternative geographies in twentieth- and twenty-first-century maps. Vivid colour illustrations allow readers to follow the argument on the surface of the maps. Rather than a conventional history of cartography, Mapping the Middle East is an incisive critique of the changing relationship between maps and belonging in a dynamic world region over the past thousand years.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-321) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : on the 'Middle East' and mapping
Mapping the 'Realm of Islam'
Mapping in the Ottoman empire
European colonial mapping in the long nineteenth century
Enclosure and exclusion in national mapping
Mapping alternative geographies.
Mapping the 'Realm of Islam'
Mapping in the Ottoman empire
European colonial mapping in the long nineteenth century
Enclosure and exclusion in national mapping
Mapping alternative geographies.