Afternoon Map
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Afternoon Map
1y ago
Midafternoon Map has returned as a biweekly newsletter with War on the Rocks. We're excited to be bringing readers more maps and more cartographic commentary. Check out our first installment here and sign up ..read more
Afternoon Map
3y ago
Somehow in the midst of looking at maps, I managed to write a book. If you're interested in how Turkey became a democracy and a NATO ally, not to mention beekeeping, Fatih, mid-century print culture, nudity or Ibrahim Hakki Konyali, please check it out:
https://www.amazon.com/Remaking-Republican-Turkey-Modernity-Ottoman/dp/1108833241 ..read more
Afternoon Map
4y ago
One of the best parts of this blog is having people occasionally send me amazing maps that they've found or made. Better yet, in this case Benjamin Lee just send me a digital collage he created of 500 maps of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire appearing in US newspapers between 1877 and 1951. I'll be going through these one by one and posting more info about some of them, but for now I couldn't resist posting the whole thing in all its massive unwieldy beauty ..read more