HIST 384 - Viewing History through Maps: East Asia in Native and European Cartography

(3.00)

This course examines how knowledge of East Asia was created, reshaped, and imposed through maps by both native and European cartographers. As a source of knowledge and a format of power, maps provide and distort information of a certain space. Map-making combines science, art, and politics. The course pays special attention to the period from the 16th to 19th centuries, when Asian and European cartographies encountered each other and stimulated an early globalization of geographic imagination. Recommended Preparation HIST 103

Course ID: 10227
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture