| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

Maps and Politics. By Jeremy Black. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 188 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-226-05493-4.)

For the past decade historians of cartography have been almost obsessed with the politics of mapping. Several groundbreaking articles published by J. B. Harley in the late 1980s and early 1990s pointed the way by challenging scholars to look beyond maps' apparent objectivity and to read them as expressions and instruments of power. Harley died before these ideas had fully matured or produced a major book from his own pen, but his influence was evident in several subsequent works, notably Denis Wood's The Power of Maps (1992), Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps, edited by David Buisseret (1992), Richard Helgerson's Forms of Nationhood (1992), Thongchai Winichakul's Siam Mapped (1994), Barbara Mundy's The Mapping of New Spain (1996), and Matthew Edney's Mapping an Empire (1997). . . .

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