Maps that Made History

1000 years of world history in 100 old maps Martijn Storms

280 x 340 mm | 432 pages | 110,000 words full colour images | hardcover all rights available | English manuscript available 100 exceptional maps that put their mark on world history The most beautiful and intriguing old maps from the world-renowned collections of Leiden University From the worldview of Isidorus of Seville (7th century) to a Chinese propaganda map from 2013

This book takes you on a thousand-year world tour through a hundred exceptional old maps. From the early medieval worldview of the cleric Isidore of Seville through to a Chinese propaganda map from 2013, via a Nazi map of Warsaw planning the outlines of the Jewish ghetto. From Leiden to Ceylon, Jamaica, Philadelphia and the Sahara, and from exuberant charts of the world to local maps. Each of these maps has helped 'create' world history: they not only reflect the past but have also left their mark on it.

In this book, an international team of historians tells a hundred fascinating stories about remarkable maps from the renowned collections of Leiden University Libraries. These include gems of exceptional aesthetic value and curiosities that are now being shown to the general public for the first time. Together, they make this book a visual feast: a unique look at the past, and one that you will come back to time and again in the future.

Martijn Storms is Curator of Maps and Atlases of Leiden University Libraries. He is assisted by some fourty international experts and authors.

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