ABSTRACT
The evidence lies, as it were, in the images. Flash back once more to the Berlin Wall taking its first hammer blows, President Bush and Secretary of State Baker at a hastily organized press conference, pointing to a map on the table in front of them, assuring the global viewing community that all frontiers-sovereignty indelibly inscribed on paper-would survive such an historic event. They sought in cartography what they could no longer
locate in reality: the fixity of former borders and former times. In their minds, paper would take stone taken down by hammer. In contrast, the atlases of Rand-McNally, more market-oriented than governments to the flux of post-Cold War times, began to sprout peel-away labels offering discounted replacements should there be any more border changes.
