Mapping European Empire : Tabulae imperii Europaei PDF
by Russell (King's College London, UK) Foster
Part of the Critical European Studies series
Description
Empire and maps are mutually reliant phenomena and traceable to the dawn of civilisation.
Furthermore, maps retain a supremely authoritative status as unquestioned reflections of reality.
In today’s image-saturated world, their influence is more powerful now than at any other time in history.
This book argues that in the 21st century we are seeing an imperial renaissance in the European Union (EU), a political organisation which defies categorisation, but whose power and influence grows by the year.
It examines the past, present, and future of the EU to demonstrate that empire is not a category of state but rather a collective imagination which reshapes history and appropriates an artificial past to validate the policies of the present and the ambitions of the future.
In doing so, this book illuminates the imperial discourse that permeates the mass maps of the modern EU.
This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of political science, EU Studies, Human Geography, European political history, cartography and visual methodologies and international relations.
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- Pages:256 pages, 3 Line drawings, color; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white;
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:26/06/2015
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- ISBN:9781317593072
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:256 pages, 3 Line drawings, color; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white;
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:26/06/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781317593072
