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Mapping as Process

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    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
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    • Mapping an Empire
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Mapping as Process

A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process

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    • Brief CV
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    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
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February 23, 2018

Maps and Memory ... and Imagination

February 23, 2018/ Matthew Edney
Maps and Memory ... and Imagination

How I came to be a map historian; memories prompted by looking at maps.

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February 16, 2018

A Self-Explanatory Map? Come for the Satire, Stay for the Fun

February 16, 2018/ Matthew Edney
A Self-Explanatory Map? Come for the Satire, Stay for the Fun

Mark Twain—known for his writing—also made this absurdist map of Paris in 1870.

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January 27, 2018

Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures: The Nebenzahl Lectures and the Study of Map History

January 27, 2018/ Matthew Edney
Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures: The Nebenzahl Lectures and the Study of Map History

The script of my presentation to the 19th Nebenzahl Lectures, 27 October 2016.

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January 15, 2018

Why I Don’t Like Thematic Maps

January 15, 2018/ Matthew Edney
Why I Don’t Like Thematic Maps

An argument for discarding an undertheorized concept and for replacing it with the mode of “analytic" mapping

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January 11, 2018

What is a Processual Approach to Mapping?

January 11, 2018/ Matthew Edney
What is a Processual Approach to Mapping?

Or, why I distrust analyses based on map form or content alone

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January 11, 2018/ Matthew Edney/
January 04, 2018

"Cartography in the European Enlightenment" goes to press!

January 04, 2018/ Matthew Edney
"Cartography in the European Enlightenment" goes to press!

Volume Four goes to press …

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January 04, 2018/ Matthew Edney/
January 01, 2018

2017 Books on Map History

January 01, 2018/ Matthew Edney
2017 Books on Map History

A quick review of some of the books that came out last year in map history.

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January 01, 2018/ Matthew Edney/
January 01, 2018

A paper about me!

January 01, 2018/ Matthew Edney
A paper about me!

Carla Lois has written an assessment of my career and intellectual trajectory as part of a series of "geographers' trajectories."

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December 14, 2017

This is Not a Map

December 14, 2017/ Matthew Edney
This is Not a Map

This is not a map. Why do people insist it is?

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December 14, 2017/ Matthew Edney/
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Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process is a space for me to explore a new approach to understanding mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.

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The books …

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations in Brill Research Perspectives on Map History. Available from Brill in print and as an ebook ($87).

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Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, edited by myself and Mary Pedley. Available from the University of Chicago Press, in print and ebook ($500).

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Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

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Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.

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