Maps are typically perceived as practical, neutral objects -- the road map in the glove compartment of your car is a faithful representation of the terrain through which you're traveling, not a political or artistic statement. Well, of course it's not that simple; for one thing, the earth is not as flat as the pages of a map, so maps must be distorted to some degree. Choices must be made about which towns and cities will be put on the map, where to draw certain borders. To some extent, nearly ev...
'A Trip To The Continent' Maps Tourism Industry Of 1900 England
The Huffington Post - 1 Jan 2015 18:13
Maps are typically perceived as practical, neutral objects -- the road map in the glove compartment of your car is a faithful representation of the terrain through which you're traveling, not a political or artistic statement. Well, of course it's not that simple; for one thing, the earth is not as flat as the pages of a map, so maps must be distorted to some degree. Choices must be made about which towns and cities will be put on the map, where to draw certain borders. To some extent, nearly ev...
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