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Mapping the Middle East

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AuthorZayde Antrim
ISBN9781780238500
Published LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
PublisherReaktion Books
BindingHardback
Original Price£35
Pages336
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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. Discussing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a region too often overlooked and considered 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.

About the author
Zayde Antrim is Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World (2012).

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