The Peters Projection World Map

Peters Map v. Mercator Projection Map Peters Projection World Map - Laminated by Arno Peters Our Price: $33.00 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Map - 1 page (January 1, 1999) Friendship Press & ODT, Inc. A New View of the World : A Handbook to the World Map, Peters Projection by Ward L., Kaiser . Our Price: $7.00 + $1.85 special surcharge Availability: This title usually ships within 4-6 weeks. Paperback (July 1987) Friendship Press Map Versus territories -- from the Amazon review by Dr Thomas Pison, World Training Institute. New York, New York In Ficciones, Borges asserts that the only true map is one that reproduces precisely the territory to be mapped. The absurdity of a map ratio 1::1 compels us to consider the unavoidable distortion in any representation. Nonetheless, Arno Peters' map highlights more than one convenient distortion of the Mercator projection map. The Mercator projection defers the inevitable realization of the disproportionate apportioning of the world according to European priorities, and undercuts the rhetoric of objectivity legitimizing European policies, particularly the presumptive "white man's burden". No one looking at a Mercator projection failed to be impressed at the splash of salmon pink - representing the British Commonwealth - without concluding that the sun never set on the British empire or their mission. Colors are never neutral, then as now. Arno Peters then chooses a neutral color scheme in his map projection and ignores political boundaries and their color selection bias. Arno Peters map contrasts starkly with the Mercator projection, and raises the starker issues of how and why an island, little more than a cul on the Eurasian landmass, managed for several centuries to wag a dog-eat-dog world. Likewise, the threat of a world dominated by communist tyranny seemed even more threatening as a massive blob of yellow menacing the peaceful color scheme of the northern hemisphere. Granted, all maps distort, as do all representations; the Peters projection map distorts least of all.

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