{"product_id":"the-librarians-atlas","title":"The Librarian's Atlas","description":"A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge—now in paperback.    Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarian’s Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how the desire to catalog books coincided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the aspiration to control territory. Through a careful study of library culture in Spain and Morocco—close readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and maps—Kimmel reveals how the booklover’s dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499151794549,"sku":"9780226854472","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-librarians-atlas","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}