Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe

by Steven Seegel

More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In Map Men, Steven Seegel takes us through some of these historical dramas with a detailed look at the maps that made and unmade the world of East Central Europe through a long continuum of world war and revolution. As a collective biography of five...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022643849X
• ISBN13: 9780226438498
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 10.4"