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This book describes the emergence of the territorial state and examines the role that cartography has played in shaping its linear boundaries.

For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two worl

A historian recounts the unlikely rise of a world capital, and how its understanding of Asia played a key role. If one had looked for a potential global city in

Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of di