In his The New Nature of Cartography, cartographer John Brian Harley analyzes a number of aspects of both modern maps and their colonial-era predecessors. A common thread of this analysis is that Harley asks the reader to examine maps through various contexts, including those of cartographers, society, and other maps. In one of his discussions…

In his The New Nature of Cartography, cartographer John Brian Harley analyzes a number of aspects of both modern maps and their colonial-era predecessors. A common thread of this analysis is that Harley asks the reader to examine maps through various contexts, including those of cartographers, society, and other maps. In one of his discussions…