A History of the World in Twelve Maps pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London, and a leading expert in the history of maps and Renaissance cartography. His most recent book, The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection (2006), was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize as well as the Hessell-Tiltman History Prize. In 2010, he was the presenter of the BBC4 series 'Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession'.
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Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by reading it, we can better understand the worlds that produced it.
Although the way we map our surroundings is changing, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been, but that they continue to define, shape and recreate the world. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.
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如今，从城中交通到环球旅行，手机以及地图软件都已成随身标配。东欧小巷、北美公路、甚或世界第一复杂的日本地铁系统，电子地图都会用手把手地给你指路。“鉴于线上地图可以在全球任何地方准确指出我们的位置，我们将成为知道迷路是什么意思的最后一代人。” 地图必不可少，地...
評分地图之所以令人感兴趣，主要来自两点： 首先，地图企图再现的世界本身不仅仅有无数的经纬坐标构成，而是有不同条件下各种便利和阻碍错综复杂的各种相互作用，这些作用导致各种条件下一次次“世界是平的”等预言先后落空。 其次，地图本身的技术手段必然会导致一定程度的变形或...
評分地图之所以令人感兴趣，主要来自两点： 首先，地图企图再现的世界本身不仅仅有无数的经纬坐标构成，而是有不同条件下各种便利和阻碍错综复杂的各种相互作用，这些作用导致各种条件下一次次“世界是平的”等预言先后落空。 其次，地图本身的技术手段必然会导致一定程度的变形或...
評分地图之所以令人感兴趣，主要来自两点： 首先，地图企图再现的世界本身不仅仅有无数的经纬坐标构成，而是有不同条件下各种便利和阻碍错综复杂的各种相互作用，这些作用导致各种条件下一次次“世界是平的”等预言先后落空。 其次，地图本身的技术手段必然会导致一定程度的变形或...
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讀過所有的英文原版書裏，最難的。。。老瞭半年，終於看完瞭，真不容易。不過值得看看。
评分讀得很纍……
评分讀過所有的英文原版書裏，最難的。。。老瞭半年，終於看完瞭，真不容易。不過值得看看。
评分讀得很纍……
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