The Rough Guide to Geopolitics with Mary Louise Pratt

Before Instagram, National Geographic, or even the Brownie camera gave us a window to the world’s cultures, readers relied on inherently subjective dispatches from intrepid travel writers. New York University’s Mary Louise Pratt is the genre’s leading scholar. Her landmark book "Imperial Eyes" offers the definitive analysis of how travel writing has shaped geopolitics from the age of exploration to the present.

This program is generously underwritten by Southwest Airlines and presented in partnership with The Newberry Library and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago.

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