杏吧原创

Map a country and you own it鈥攇ood as. As Matthew Edney argues in
Mapping an Empire, the British East India Company鈥檚 trigonometric surveys of
India 200 years ago combined territorial and intellectual conquest.
鈥淐ivilisation鈥� came armed with a theodolite. It is how Britain painted half the
world鈥檚 map red. Published by University of Chicago Press in August,
拢27.95/$35, ISBN 0 226 18487 0.