{"product_id":"mapping-the-middle-east-zayde-antrim-9781780238500","title":"Mapping the Middle East","description":"\u003ci\u003eMapping the Middle East \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the many ways people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus River Valleys over the past millennium. By analyzing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. As Antrim argues, better-known maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a period coinciding with European colonialism and the rise of the nation-state--not only obscure this rich past, but also constrain visions for the region's future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Organized chronologically, \u003ci\u003eMapping the Middle East \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses the medieval \"Realm of Islam;\" the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire; French and British colonialism through World War I; nationalism in modern Turkey, Iran, and Israel\/Palestine; and alternative geographies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Vivid color illustrations throughout allow readers to compare the maps themselves with Antrim's analysis. Much more than a conventional history of cartography, \u003ci\u003eMapping the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive critique of the changing relationship between maps and belonging in a dynamic world region over the past thousand years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zayde Antrim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1780238509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780238500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.90w x 1.30d","brand":"Zayde Antrim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43937963180287,"sku":"9781780238500","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_729f54e3-a109-4e12-87e3-aa077fcb2c95.jpg?v=1681432934","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mapping-the-middle-east-zayde-antrim-9781780238500","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}