Here be dragons ...
/… on Andrea Bianco’s 1436 mappamundi.
Read MoreA blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
How scholars who measured the size of the earth wrote about the history of that endeavor, before 1720 and the debate over the spheroidal shape of the earth
Read More4–9 July 2021 – in Bucharest, Romania !!
Read MoreAn interesting map by an interesting scholar and artist.
Read MoreMaps, Bodies, and Desire: The Gendered Construction of Territory - video of the presentation at the 2019 Barry Ruderman Conference on Cartography
Read MoreTo be an editor for Imago Mundi?
Read MoreAlso, the state as an organism: the nineteenth-century justification for imperial expansion!
Read MoreHow a German rent collector became an important map maker of the fifteenth century, at least in the eyes of early map historians
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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