"This book is a group intellectual biography of five prominent geographers from East Central Europe and the United States between the 1870s and the 1950s. Seegel recreates the public and private worlds of these mapmakers, who interacted with and influenced one another even as they played key roles in defining and redefining borders, territories, nations, and ultimately the interconnection of the world throughout the period that includes the two World Wars."--Provided by publisher.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Author’s Note
• Introduction
  • Argument: A Transnational Love Story
  • A Five-Headed Cast: Defining Map Men
  • Epistolary Geography
  • Triptych
• Chapter One: Professor Penck’s Pupils
  • Saxony, 1858
  • West Galicia, 1871
  • East Galicia, 1877
  • Ontario-Michigan, 1878
  • Budapest-Transylvania,1879
• Chapter Two: Objectivity
  • WWI Collisions
  • Pan-American Careerist
  • Out of Eurasia
  • Fantasy Easts
  • Apotheosis
  • Paprika Geography
• Chapter Three: Courtiers
  • In Search of Patrons
  • Among the Defeated
  • Rump State
  • Melotrauma
  • Victors in Arms
  • New Worlds, New Men
  • Strings to Pull
  • Scenes from a Breakup
• Chapter Four: Beruf
  • Vienna-Prague- Kharkov
  • Bodily Work
  • Of Glaciers and Men
  • An American in Mosul
  • 1925: Volks-und Kulturboden
  • A Sort of Heimat-coming
  • Revision Institutionalized
  • Illusions
• Chapter Five: A League of Their Own
  • Wissenschaft Wars
  • Asymmetry
  • Third Reich
  • Knocking on Europe’s Door
  • Lives of a Salesman
  • Boys to Men
  • Children of Solovki
• Chapter Six: Ex-Homes
  • Old Worlds
  • Calling Dr. Love
  • You Can’t Go Heimat Again
  • Revenge
  • Suicide
  • Manpower
  • Contemplation
• Chapter Seven: Twilight
  • A Drive to the East
  • “Before Death Plucks My Ear”
  • Repatriation, in Place
  • A Multigenerational Affair
  • Freunde und Feinde
  • Afterlives
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index