pt. 1. A European identity -- A very overrated geographer -- pt. 2. Faith and fighting -- Is this Australia? or Java joined to Vietnam? -- pt. 3. Global networks -- The Flemish cartographers -- pt. 4. The white man's burden
Summary
Inspired by antique maps and the mapmakers' global vision, this book presents the past as a single narrative in which European history is an offshoot of Asian history. The author explains that the dominating ethos of the modern West owes more to hordes of Asian nomads who colonised Europe than to the classical civilisation of the Greeks and Romans
Notes
Images are mainly from the State Library of Victoria maps collection and rare books collection
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [266]-269) and index
