Daniel Foliard is a lecturer at Paris Ouest University.
"Foliard has produced a study that will no doubt become the
standard work on cartography and the emergence of the Middle East.
Beyond its immediate importance to the field of Middle Eastern and
British imperial history, it opens up possibilities of comparison
as well. Indeed, Dislocating the Orient should be read alongside
comparable work in imperial cartography by Matthew Edney, Felix
Driver, D. Graham Burnett, and Ian Barrow."-- "Journal of Modern
History"
A Book of the Year. "Daniel Foliard's Dislocating the Orient:
British maps and the making of the Middle East, 1854-1921 (Chicago)
skillfully examines Victorian and Edwardian conceptions of another
"East", revealing how spiritual journeys shape and deform
cartographic documents."--Rachel Polonsky "Times Literary
Supplement"
"Dislocating the Orient is a richly illustrated, wide-ranging, and
thought-provoking enquiry into the intellectual and cartographic
origins of the 'Near East' in a period when the region was of great
religious and cultural interest and of enormous strategic
importance. Foliard's focus is maps and mapping--but this book
offers so much more. It explores the construction of the 'Near
East' in nineteenth-century public minds, and in school and
university education, in Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, and
within the region itself. It illuminates the connections between
exploration and espionage and the institutional apparatus of
empire. From Victorian atlases and scriptural geographies to the
implications of the 1919 Versailles agreement, Foliard traces the
fashioning and representation of a region key to the making of the
modern world with erudition and élan."-- "Charles W. J. Withers,
University of Edinburgh"
"Foliard's book is a highly significant contribution to the growing
literature on cartography and empire. Not the least of the projects
of European imperialism was the mapping of the globe. Far from
being an objective exercise, this mapping was bound by ideological
and cultural, military, and ethnic considerations. Nowhere was this
truer than in the region which came to be known as the Middle East.
The importance of Dislocating the Orient lies both in the light it
sheds on the construction of the Middle East, underpinning the
politics and tensions of today, and on the applicability of its
ideas to other imperial zones in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries."-- "John M. MacKenzie, Lancaster University"
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