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Located in the often-contentious center of the European continent,
German territory has regularly served as a primary tool through
which to understand and study Germany's economic, cultural, and
political development. Many German geographers throughout the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became deeply invested in
geopolitical determinism-the idea that a nation's territorial
holdings (or losses) dictate every other aspect of its existence.
Taking this as his premise, Mingus focuses on the use of maps as
mediums through which the United States, Great Britain, and the
Soviet Union sought to reshape German national identity after the
Second World War. As important as maps and the study of geography
have been to the field of European history, few scholars have
looked at the postwar development of occupied Germany through the
lens of the map-the most effective means to orient German citizens
ontologically within a clearly and purposefully delineated spatial
framework. Mingus traces the institutions and individuals involved
in the massive cartographic overhaul of postwar Germany. In doing
so, he explores not only the causes and methods behind the
production and reproduction of Germany's mapped space but also the
very real consequences of this practice.
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