Cartophilia
Subtitle: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780226173023
Subjects: Cartography; Alsace (france); France, historical geography; Germany, historical geography
Description: The period between the French Revolution and the Second World War saw an unprecedented proliferation of mapmaking and map reading across modern European society. This book explores the 'age of cartophilia' through the story of mapmaking in the disputed French-German borderland of Alsace-Lorraine.