Long underwear on a line? The Peters projection and thirty years of carto-controversy

Geography

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 236-244

  Sriskandarajah, Dhananjayan ^a  

^a MAGDALEN COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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CARTOGRAPHY; MAPPING; NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS;

EID: 0042889288     PISSN: 00167487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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