A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
A fairly simple enquiry — how relevant is it to talk about the development and evolution of maps and mapping? — soon gets wrapped up in questions about the nature of “maps” and “mapping” and therefore how we define maps, cartography, map history, and map studies generally.
Read MoreAn essay on maps and games and diversions … for the History of Cartography Project’s outreach efforts
Read MoreThe “history of cartography” of the basins of the Black and Caspian seas by Xavier and Adèle Hommaire de Hell (1844–45)
Read MoreRetelling the Dispute at the Origin of the History of Cartography
Read MoreAn Analysis of Three Bibliographies of the “History of Cartography”
Read MoreClarifying My Call to Abandon the Ideal and the Prescriptivism It Stands for
Read MoreJust published in the AAG Review of Books
Read More… in Calafia, the journal of the California Map Society
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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