| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer. The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2006. Pp. xv, 192. $49.95.

This is a rather short book about a very large subject: the way in which maps have been used by those in authority to express their command of space. After the introduction and a chapter called "The Cartographer's Mirror," there are twelve chapters, grouped into the headings "Instruments of Power," "Worldviews," and "The Cartographical Revolution." The introduction insists on the "fluid and inventive nature of maps," drawing in a great variety of examples. This is indeed one of the strengths of Arthur Jay Klinghoffer's book: it ranges far and wide in the literature (provided that it is written in English).

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