Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World

A collection of the greatest political maps in history and how these images have an unmatched power to influence our thinking—and our world.

In this book, award-winning journalist Peter Keating has assembled dozens of the most significant maps in history. There is the map featuring the Treaty of Tordesillas meridian, which Spain and Portugal used to divide the whole of the Western Hemisphere in 1494. The map deployed by Western leaders at the 1884 Berlin Conference to carve up Africa. A map...