Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa edited by Norman Etherington

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Tail right front cover corner now protected with book tape.

Mapping Colonial Conquest is a pioneering survey of the role of cartography in the colonial conquest of Australia and South Africa. Rather than depicting objective geographic truths, Etherington and his contributors reveal that cartography is the product of powerful social forces.

Mapping Colonial Conquest adopts an interdisciplinary approach to exploring storylines and hitherto secret histories that continue to have a pervasive influence over both nations' political, legal, social and cultural institutions, as well as their policies and democratic processes. This is a penetrating study of how the proliferation of maps produced by colonial powers has erased, overwritten, and/or displaced Indigenous conceptions of space. (back cover)