The Story of Maps

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Cartographic ideals and geopolitical realities: international maps of the world from the 1890s to the present

“…As Brown (1979, 299) has argued, this debate influenced the attitudes of mapmakers who sought to prepare themselves ‘mentally … and scientifically … to think and act in terms of global cartography’ (see also Heffernan 2002). It was already clear by the middle of the nineteenth century that the ever‐expanding archive of maps constructed in different parts of the world, on a bewildering variety of scales, projections and styles, had become a confusing obstacle to scientific analysis rather than a useful resource.…”