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Mapping as Process

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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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Mapping as Process

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

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process

  • About/
    • About Me
    • Brief CV
  • My Books/
    • Comparative Map History
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
  • Bibliographies/
    • Classified (with download links)
    • Regular Format
  • Archive/
  • Resources/
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    • dramatis personae
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March 14, 2019

2018 Books on Map History

March 14, 2019/ Matthew Edney
2018 Books on Map History

(At least as they have caught my eye)

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March 14, 2019/ Matthew Edney/
March 09, 2019

More FErs

March 09, 2019/ Matthew Edney
More FErs

A brief review of the Netflix documentary

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March 09, 2019/ Matthew Edney/
March 03, 2019

Pocket globes "in the wild"

March 03, 2019/ Matthew Edney
Pocket globes "in the wild"

Musical theater and maps …

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March 03, 2019/ Matthew Edney/
December 19, 2018

The First International Map of the World?

December 19, 2018/ Matthew Edney
The First International Map of the World?

A wildly ambitious attempt in 1794 to create a massively detailed, systematic atlas of the whole world

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December 19, 2018/ Matthew Edney/
December 15, 2018

A Misunderstood Quatrain

December 15, 2018/ Matthew Edney
A Misunderstood Quatrain

We Should Get over Ourselves

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December 15, 2018/ Matthew Edney/
November 29, 2018

A partial, essentialist, and incorrect etymology for “map”

November 29, 2018/ Matthew Edney
A partial, essentialist, and incorrect etymology for “map”

An intriguing definition of “the map” that does not work.

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October 02, 2018

Update re "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History"

October 02, 2018/ Matthew Edney
Update re "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History"

I can haz a pretty cover! And you can pre-order the book, too!!!!

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October 02, 2018

The Limits to Mapping

October 02, 2018/ Matthew Edney
The Limits to Mapping

The video of my talk last week at Yale

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September 04, 2018

USGS Printing Techniques

September 04, 2018/ Matthew Edney
USGS Printing Techniques

Testing more assumptions about printing processes

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September 04, 2018/ 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 July 2025, in print and 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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