October 09, 2020

Review forum for Cartography: The Ideal and Its History

October 09, 2020/ Matthew Edney

Just published in the AAG Review of Books

September 26, 2020

Small Piece Published re Maine Mapping Exhibition

September 26, 2020/ Matthew Edney

… in Calafia, the journal of the California Map Society

September 24, 2020

Interview with Mary and me about Volume Four

September 24, 2020/ Matthew Edney

… at The Learned Pig

September 12, 2020

I Have Located a Town ...

September 12, 2020/ Matthew Edney

Depicted in an anonymous plan of timber and land quality, having been misled by a stupid error on the map!

September 09, 2020

"Mapping Maine" is up and ready to visit

September 09, 2020/ Matthew Edney

OML’s exhibition for the Maine bicentnnial is finally done!

August 26, 2020

River Names

August 26, 2020/ Matthew Edney

A Question of Whose Ontological Consistency

August 19, 2020

A Little-Known Facsimile

August 19, 2020/ Matthew Edney

Ramón de la Sagra’s facsimile of Juan de la Cosa’s depiction of the New World in 1500

August 16, 2020

An Early Narrative of Map History

August 16, 2020/ Matthew Edney

Rufus Blanchard’s Historical Map of the United States (1876)

August 13, 2020

Rehabilitating “Historical Map”

August 13, 2020/ Matthew Edney

It’s time to end a confusing prescription good only for academic gate-keeping

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 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).

Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.

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