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Mapping as Process

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    • Brief CV
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    • 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

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    • About Me
    • Brief CV
  • My Books/
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
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    • Regular Format
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July 27, 2020

How to Sell Maps in the Eighteenth Century

July 27, 2020/ Matthew Edney
How to Sell Maps in the Eighteenth Century

… to college students, at least, alongside pre-written essays

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July 27, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
July 23, 2020

Here be dragons ...

July 23, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Here be dragons ...

… on Andrea Bianco’s 1436 mappamundi.

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July 23, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
July 20, 2020

Early Histories of Geodesy

July 20, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Early Histories of Geodesy

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

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July 20, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
July 10, 2020

cfp: International Conference on the History of Cartography, 2021

July 10, 2020/ Matthew Edney
cfp: International Conference on the History of Cartography, 2021

4–9 July 2021 – in Bucharest, Romania !!

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July 10, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
June 07, 2020

An Early pro-Australian World Map

June 07, 2020/ Matthew Edney
An Early pro-Australian World Map

An interesting map by an interesting scholar and artist.

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June 07, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
June 03, 2020

Video of a Conference Presentation !!

June 03, 2020/ Matthew Edney

Maps, Bodies, and Desire: The Gendered Construction of Territory - video of the presentation at the 2019 Barry Ruderman Conference on Cartography

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June 03, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
May 29, 2020

“Mode” or “Genre”?

May 29, 2020/ Matthew Edney
“Mode” or “Genre”?

How to subdivide the different kinds of maps … or, more properly, mapping

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May 29, 2020

Do You Have What It Takes?

May 29, 2020/ Matthew Edney

To be an editor for Imago Mundi?

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May 27, 2020

What a difference a caption makes

May 27, 2020/ Matthew Edney
What a difference a caption makes

Also, the state as an organism: the nineteenth-century justification for imperial expansion!

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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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