Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and a leading expert in the history of cartography. He presented the BBC4 series Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession in 2010, and is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books, including Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West (Reaktion, 2000), co-written with Lisa Jardine, and the bestselling and prize-winning A History of the World in Twelve Maps (2012).

Jerry Brotton's Trading Territories is a history not just of how the first truly global maps were made but how they were conceptualised, and how they shaped as well as described the early-modern world . . . Trading Territories covers a wide sweep of shifting territory with verve and authority. - Geographical MagazineA beautifully illustrated account of the status, construction and purposes of maps in the Early Modern world. - History TodayJerry Brotton’s elegant Trading Territories shows how historically maps were about facilitating trade and celebrating (and exerting) influence. - The Independent