The structuring of political territory in early printed atlases

The atlas emerged as a cartographic and bibliographic response to early modern Europeans' search for geographical order in a rapidly changing world. In particular, atlases were mediators in the restructuring of European ideas about political territory which culminated in the emergence (by the e...

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Published in:Imago mundi (Lympne) 1995-01, Vol.47 (1), p.138-154
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boundaries, on maps
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Countries
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