The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life, not only ch

From the first British concentration camps to the only Nazi labour camp on British soil, and from a trench map used at the Battle of the Somme to an escape and

The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life, not only ch

"This book tells a global story of a turbulent century in history through its most powerful and important object: the map. It includes over 130 illustrations of

Explores the role, development, and nature of the atlas and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.