12 Maps That Changed the World - Uri Friedman - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/12-maps-that-changed-the-world/282666
Is there such a thing as a perfect map?
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“All cultures have always believed that the map they valorize is real and true and objective and transparent,” Brotton, a professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary University of London, told me. “All maps are always subjective.... Even today’s online geospatial applications on all your mobile devices and tablets, be they produced by Google or Apple or whoever, are still to some extent subjective maps.”
There are, in other words, no perfect maps—just maps that (more-or-less) perfectly capture our understanding of the world at discrete moments in time. In his new book, A History of the World in 12 Maps, Brotton masterfully catalogs the maps that tell us most about pivotal periods in human history. I asked him to walk me through the 12 maps he selected (you can click on each map below to enlarge it).
