Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires

Luis Lobo-Guerrero is Professor of History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen.Laura Lo Presti is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Padova.Filipe dos Reis is Assistant Professor of Geopolitics and Connectivity at the University of Groningen.

• Series Editor’s NotePreface: Poseidonians and the Tragedy of Mapping European Empires, Luis Lobo-Guerrero1. Mapping and the Making of Imperial European Connectivity, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti and Filipe dos Reis2. Mapping the Invention of the Early ‘Spanish’ Empire, Luis Lobo-Guerrero3. Freezing Cartographic Imaginaries, Jeppe Strandsbjerg4. Surveying in British North America: A Homology of Property and Territory, Kerry Goettlich5. Empires of Science, Science of Empires: Mapping, Centres of Calculation and the Making of Imperial Spaces in Nineteenth Century Germany, Filipe dos Reis6. Representing France’s Syrian “Colony Without a Flag”: Imperial Cartographic Strategies at the Margin of the Peace Conference, Louis Le Douarin7. The Cartographic Lives of the Italian Fascist Empire, Laura Lo PrestiAbout the Editors and Contributors

This impressive collection of essays offers an important and timely contribution to the study of mapping, empires, and the politics of space, with the novel addition of an explicit focus on connectivity. Particularly useful is the interdisciplinary nature of the volume, given that these issues undoubtedly cross—and bring into question—disciplinary boundaries.