Author: ETHERINGTON, NORMAN; Editor.
Title: Mapping Colonial Conquest. Australia and Southern Africa.
Description: Square 8vo; pp. x, 220; list of illustrations, profusely illustrated throughout, notes, select bibliography, index; original stiff illustrated wrapper; a fine copy. University of Western Australia Press, (2007). Pioneering survey of the role of cartography in the colonial conquest of Australia and Southern Africa. rather than depicting objective geographic 'truths', Norman Etherington and his contributors reveal cartography to be the product of powerful social forces. this is a penetrating study of how the proliferation of maps produced by colonisers have erased, written over and/or displaced Indigenous conceptions of space.
Keywords: gea Australia Australian general history Mapping South Africa African Colonies Maps map cartofraphy
Title: Mapping Colonial Conquest. Australia and Southern Africa.
Description: Square 8vo; pp. x, 220; list of illustrations, profusely illustrated throughout, notes, select bibliography, index; original stiff illustrated wrapper; a fine copy. University of Western Australia Press, (2007). Pioneering survey of the role of cartography in the colonial conquest of Australia and Southern Africa. rather than depicting objective geographic 'truths', Norman Etherington and his contributors reveal cartography to be the product of powerful social forces. this is a penetrating study of how the proliferation of maps produced by colonisers have erased, written over and/or displaced Indigenous conceptions of space.
Keywords: gea Australia Australian general history Mapping South Africa African Colonies Maps map cartofraphy
Price: AUD 35.00 = appr. US$ 24.22 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 104238
- Book number: 104238