Mapping the Cold War

摘要

The Cold War was a physical struggle over space and around spatial perspectives on how the world should be ideologically structured. It was fought with all manner of geographical technologies including new kinds of cartographic projections as well as exploiting the age-old power of maps for their propagandist rhetoric. This well-researched book provides an interpretative review of the some of the ways maps were actively deployed by the Americans in the 50-year long informational war with the Communist Bloc. Timothy Barney delineates how '[m]aps offered particular choices on how to depict missile silos and peace agreements; how small or large to portray the developing countries of the world, where to intervene; whom to fear; and whom to contain' (p.4).