Conceptualizing the World

Zusatztext

<p> What isand what wasthe world? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and inexorable progress of globalization, concepts of world, globe, or earth instead suggest something limited and absolute. This innovative and interdisciplinary volume concerns itself with this central paradox: that the complex, heterogeneous, and purportedly transhistorical dynamics of globalization have given rise to the idea and reality of a finiteand thus vulnerableworld. Through studies of illuminating historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth, each contribution helps to trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Erling Sandmo</strong> is Professor of History at the University of Oslo and the director of the National Library of Norway's Center for Historical Cartography. His most recent books are<em>Monstrous: Sea Monsters in Maps and Literature, 1491-1895</em> (2017) and the co-edited<em>Circulation of Knowledge: Explorations in the History of Knowledge</em> (2018). He is currently working on a book on Olaus Magnus.</p>

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