Maps

maps, mappability

"the visual images they offer are influential in creating and sustaining notions of historical situations, and are par"ticularly appropriate as a theme for inquiry given the recent stress on nations as imagined political communities, on the role of images as a mean of creating perceptions of power and more generally on iconographic aspects of political and cultural authority (...) geography was and is more than a background or backdrop to historical events and processes. the nature of our understanding of psace and of spatial relationships is of consequence, and historical atlases provide a means for assessing how these have changed over time."