A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
Some principles I’ve found useful in reading maps as cultural texts. (My image is from Petrus Bertius, 1628: the world according to Pomponius Mela, just because this is a key work in the reworking of the end of chapter 2 of Mapping, History, Theory)
Read MoreAn amazing collection of military maps and plans, 1572–1815, is now available online!
Read MoreI’m having a sad about a map in an episode of the West Wing
Read MoreSome reflections on the shifting usage of one of my least favorite words: the back formation has been repoeatedly coined to subvert the ideal of cartography, but all it can do is perpetuate it!
Read MoreJust a test to see how the connection to twitter works. If this stays up, then consider this notice that you can follow my twitter feed (@mhedney, see link in footer) for notices of new posts.
The books that came out in the past twelve months that caught my attention. (Of course I have to use the image of my own!)
Read MoreIt’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 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 July 2025, in print and 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).
Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.
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