Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...
Coloring the world into tidy blocks with sharp edges feels natural today. Nations look solid on a classroom map. But that way ...
The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...
In amazingly colorful yet simple ways, with lots of memorable examples, priest-author shows how everyone can tilt their ...