Analysis: The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict

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Professor James Cheshire (UCL Geography) explores in an article for The Conversation the significance of maps in The Cold War era, and the influence they may have had on US President Donald Trump and his interest in Greenland. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and Fortune commissioned a generation of famous cartographers – who had come of age in the second world war – to explain the new geopolitics to a mass

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