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Map-Making in World History - an Interview with Kären Wigen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2015

Carolien Stolte
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Abstract

This interview took place at Harvard University, where Kären Wigen, the Frances and Charles Field Professor in History of Stanford University gave the 2015 Reischauer Lectures. This year’s theme was ‘Where in the World? Map-Making at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900.’ Carolien Stolte and Rachel Koroloff interviewed Professor Wigen to the tunes of Persian music at the Kolbeh of Kabob restaurant on Cambridge Street.

Type
Interview
Information
Itinerario , Volume 39 , Issue 2: Africa In The Atlantic World , August 2015 , pp. 203 - 214
Copyright
© 2015, Research Institute for History, Leiden University 

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