Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World

by Jerry Brotton

Series:Reaktion Books - Picturing History

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Trading Territories is a beautifully illustrated book which offers a new account of the status of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world.

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Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of Loudon and a leading expert in the history of cartography. He presented the BBC4 series Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession in 2010 and is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books, including Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West (Reaktion, show more 2000; co-written with Lisa Jardine) and the award-winning and best-selling A History of the World in Twelve Maps (2012). show less

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