1st Edition
The Geography of Uncertainty A Conceptual Model of Early Modern Globalization and the Current Crisis
Preface, by Franco Farinelli
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 – For a definition of uncertainty
Chapter 2 – The society of uncertainty
Chapter 3 – Early Modern European political geography and uncertainty
Chapter 4 – The "Mad Flight" and the geography of uncertainty
Chapter 5 – Cartographic secularization
Chapter 6 – The tragedy of cartography in the Modern Age
Chapter 7 – Conclusion: uncertainty as a Paradigm of Modern Times
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Alessandro Ricci is Assistant Professor of Political Geography at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His research interests concern Early Modern globalization and political geography; historical and political cartography; the connections between art, maps and power; and the Netherlands during the Golden Age. In 2018, he received the "Carmelo Colamonico" award from Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for "scientific writings in geography". In 2014, he obtained a European Label PhD degree cum laude in "Culture and Territory" at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where he has been a researcher and attended courses in political cartography and geopolitics. He carried out research activities at the University of Trento and Amsterdam. He is one of the managers of the Think tank "Geopolitica.info".
