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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

This book provides an innovative approach to the history of world mapmaking, wide-ranging in both its chronological scope (stretching from maps made from clay dated c. 700 BC to current geospatial applications), its cross-cultural approach (analysing Babylonian, Greek, Islamic, Chinese and European world maps) and its interdisciplinary ethos (drawing on all aspects of the Humanities, in particularly Geography, History, Classics, Anthropology and English). It provides the first global survey of world map-making and involved, over a period of seven years, the consultation in international museums and archives of a vast body of primary and secondary material written in several languages.