Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland
by
Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed borderland that the French and Germans both claimed...