TRADING TERRITORIES

Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to th e early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and Southeast Asia - this book shows how the historical preoccupation with Columbus's `discovery' of the New World of America in 1492 obscured the ongoi ng importance of mapping territories that have since been defined as `eastern', especially those in the Muslim world. In this book, now avail...[Read more]