A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
It’s late December and the media industry has been busy churning out the lists of the best (and worst) Xs of 2019 and also, because it’s 2019, they are also generating lists of the best (and worst) Xs of the decade. Here’s my idiosyncratic list of the best books in map history of the decade.
Read MoreIs this an imperialistic claim by a British author to the Holy Land, or what?
Read MoreI’ll shortly be deleting the FB feed for “mapping as process” — follow me on H-MAPS or via an RSS reader to learn of new posts. I might try twitter.
Read MoreApparently, I live not in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine, USA, but in Oild-Veetty (or should it be Kild-Noutvy?)
Read MoreEveryone with anything like an academic interest in early maps (which is to say everyone who likes this blog) should join!
Read MoreIs the Magnetic Compass Responsible for the Common Practice of Orienting Maps to the North?
Read MoreMy opening remarks for the “Frontier Forum on Cartographic History & International Seminar on The History of Cartography Translation Project,” Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, held at Yunnan University (Chenggong Campus), 25 August 2019
Read MoreMapping 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.
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).
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).
Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).
Available from my bibliography
Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.
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