Mapping European Empire
Empire and maps are mutually reliant phenomena and traceable to the dawn of civilisation. Furthermore, maps retain a supremely authoritative status as unquestioned reflections of reality. In todays image-saturated world, their influence is more powerful now than at any other time in history.
This book argues that in the twenty-first century we are seeing an imperial renaissance in the European Union (EU), a political organisation which defies categorisation but whose power and influence grows by the year. It examines the past, present, and future of the EU to demonstrate that empire is not a category of state but rather a collective imagination which reshapes history and appropriates an artificial past to validate the policies of the present and the ambitions of the future. In doing so, this book illuminates the imperial discourse that permeates the mass maps of the modern EU.
This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of political science, EU studies, human geography, European political history, cartography and visual methodologies, and international relations.
Russell Foster is Doctor of Political Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK.
Critical European Studies
Edited by Hartmut Behr, University of Newcastle, UK and Yannis A. Stivachtis, Virginia Tech, USA
1. Mapping European Empire
Tabulae imperii Europaei
Russell Foster
2. Revisiting the European Union as an Empire
Edited by Hartmut Behr and Ioannis A. Stivachtis
3. Unleashing Social Justice through EU Public Procurement
Antoinette Calleja
First published 2015
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Foster, Russell (Russell David)
Mapping European empire = Tabulae imperii Europaei / Russell Foster.
pages cm. (Critical European studies ; 1)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-138-81921-4 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-315-74475-9 (ebk.)
1. European UnionInfluence 2. European UnionMembership.
3. European Union countriesBoundaries. 4. Imperialism. I. Title.
II. Title: Tabulae imperii Europaei.
JN30.F66 2015
341.2422dc23
2014023318
ISBN: 9781138819214 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781315744759 (ebk)
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This book emerged from a doctorate funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/H018565/1), and without the most generous financial support of the ESRC and the academic support of those supervisors, staff members, and colleagues at Newcastle who helped me write the funding proposals, this project could not have been. I am most grateful for five years of support from the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, and thanks go to all those members of academic staff who facilitated the research which went into this book, and to Prof. Timothy Luke, Prof. Yannis Stivachtis, and Dr. Matthew Gabriele, who mentored my research at Virginia Tech in 2013. Special thanks especially go to my editor at Routledge, Charlotte Endersby, for guiding me through the composition process with immense patience!
Special thanks go to D. Russel Michinhimer of Oregon Rock Art for permission to use the image of Map Rock. Prof. Marc Levoy of Stanford Universitys Forma urbis Romae is to be thanked for granting use of images. Special thanks also go to the Newberry Library at the University of Chicago, the British Museum, the Bibliothque Nationale de France, the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbttel, the European Commission, European Central Bank, and European External Action Service, for permission to use images. Special thanks also go to Routledge for generously paying copyright fees.
Gratitude is especially due to my exceptional supervisory committee for their constant support and advice on both the project and my postgraduate career. Prof. Hartmut Behr has consistently set the standard for professional mentoring and personal guidance. Like Dr. Alex Jeffrey and Dr. Nick Megoran, without his support this book would not have been written. Gratitude is also due to Prof. Jakob Wisse and Dr. Jane Webster of Newcastle Universitys School of Archaeology, Classics and History, and to Prof. Richard Hingley of Durham Universitys Faculty of Archaeology. Special thanks go to Prof. William Outhwaite of Newcastle University and Prof. Luiza Bialasiewicz of the University of Amsterdam for examining my PhD, and to Viscount the Lord John Julius Norwich for his very kind support. Gratitude also goes to my undergraduate director at the University of Cambridge, Prof. Richard Drayton. At a rum-fuelled seminar one summers evening in Corpus Christi College as St. Benets bells were pealing Vespers, he first kindled my interest in empire .
A lot of people provided support during the research and writing of this work, and I cannot name them all. In no order, Dr. Mark Edward, Lewis Scott, Paul McFadden, Janine Whitfield, Laura Solomon, Jamie Carr, Alywin Bristol, Michael Richardson, Dr. James Freeman, Laura Payne, Jye Smallwood, Kate Steel, George Brathwaite, Laura Solomon, Gerard Thomas, Hector-Phoenix Owuye, Ben Coulson, Xander Kirke, and Patrick Adichie are to be thanked for their enduring friendship and emphatic support throughout the work. Thanks also go to Malachy Iwuagwu, resting in peace. Grateful thanks go to my hosts at Virginia Tech; Greg Giunta, Colin Deely, Andy Bourdeau, Nick Wilfong, and Dacruz Norberto, along with Tony McEwing of Fox News, who hosted my academic stay in Los Angeles. My fellow bodybuilders Thomas Ogah, Dhanuja Makawita, Alem Gabriel, and Sol Njie helped me maintain mens sana in corpore sano throughout. Very special thanks go to Daniel Stroe for his unending support and saintly tolerance! My family Janet, Jeff, Rory, Victoria, Jean, and Ray heroically endured five years of nagging requests for proofreading, personal politicking, more than the occasional diatribe of complaints, and frequent, long evenings in paper-littered living rooms while I was cloistered away with atlases. They deserve more thanks than I can give. A special word also goes to Rob Tucker ego dico tibi quia tu es petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo animam meam .
