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Jerry BroughtonJerry Broughton es un historiador británico. Es profesor de Estudios del Renacimiento, presentador de radio y televisión y curador en la Universidad Queen Mary de Londres.
Broton escribe sobre literatura, historia, cultura material, comercio y relaciones Este-Oeste, especialmente en los siglos XVI y XVII. Adopta un enfoque interdisciplinario, analizando el arte, la política, la historia, la escritura de viajes y la literatura. Su libro A History of the World in Twelve Maps (Allen Lane, 2012) ha sido traducido a doce idiomas. ] Su The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection (MacMillan, 2006) fue nominado para el premio Samuel Johnson (ahora el premio Bailey Gifford). Propone sarcásticamente que la dispersión de la colección de arte de Carlos I en 1649 fue un movimiento democrático digno de emular en el mundo contemporáneo. Su libro de 2016 This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (Londres: Alan Lane, 2016) fue serializado en BBC Radio 4 y ganó la Corona de no ficción de la Asociación de Escritores Históricos (2017).

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Trading Territories is a beautifully illustrated book that offers a new account of the status of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world. Focusing on how early European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World—Africa and Southeast Asia—Jerry Brotton contends that the historical preoccupation with Columbus’s “discovery” of the New World in 1492 has tended to obscure the importance of the mapping of territories that have been defined as “eastern.” Brotton situates the rise of early modern mapping within the context of the seaborne commercial adventures of the early maritime empires—the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Ottomans, the Dutch, and the English—and explores the ways in which maps and globes were used to mediate the commercial and diplomatic disputes between these empires. Rather than the development of early maps being shaped by disinterested intellectual pursuits, Trading Territories argues that trade, diplomacy, and financial speculation played the most essential role. “In this outstanding study of maps and mapping, Jerry Brotton reveals a dynamism in the transaction between East and West beyond anything we have previously appreciated.”—Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary, University of London