Maps and Politics - British hardcover

1997, British hardcover edition, Reaktion Books, London, U.K. 188 pages. Outstanding images / illustrations (some color) / maps throughout. This is another title in the publisher's Picturing History series. "We all rely on the apparent accuracy and objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Are the power and purpose of maps inherently political?" The author takes this approach and demonstrates ways that maps are "... not straightforward visual texts, but contain political and politicizing subtexts that need to be read with care."