Daniel Foliard Boeken

The book delves into the historical construction of the Middle East, revealing how British imperial maps and colonial activities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped its identity as a distinct geopolitical region. Foliard examines the interplay of knowledge, ignorance, and mapping that contributed to this transformation, highlighting the significant cultural and geographical changes that emerged. By utilizing primary texts and historical maps, the work offers insights valuable to historians of the Middle East, the British Empire, and cultural geography.

This book offers a new account of the development of conflict photography. It explores how the new technology of the camera was used in the British and French empires as a means of controlling subject populations, and how these populations found ways of turning the technology against their oppressors. -- .