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Mapping as Process

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    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
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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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    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
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December 08, 2020

Explicating the Observational Preconception of the Ideal of Cartography

December 08, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Explicating the Observational Preconception of the Ideal of Cartography

An unequivocal statement of the idea that maps necessarily constitute “a god’s eye view” of the world

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December 07, 2020

Rethinking Maps and Mapping and How They Have Developed and Evolved

December 07, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Rethinking Maps and Mapping and How They Have Developed and Evolved

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.

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December 07, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
November 25, 2020

The Maps We Play ...

November 25, 2020/ Matthew Edney
The Maps We Play ...

An essay on maps and games and diversions … for the History of Cartography Project’s outreach efforts

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November 25, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
November 16, 2020

Unknown early disciples of Humboldt and Santarém

November 16, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Unknown early disciples of Humboldt and Santarém

The “history of cartography” of the basins of the Black and Caspian seas by Xavier and Adèle Hommaire de Hell (1844–45)

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November 06, 2020

Jomard vs Santarém

November 06, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Jomard vs Santarém

Retelling the Dispute at the Origin of the History of Cartography

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November 06, 2020

The Growth of Map History in the Nineteenth Century

November 06, 2020/ Matthew Edney
The Growth of Map History in the Nineteenth Century

An Analysis of Three Bibliographies of the “History of Cartography”

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October 15, 2020

Creating 'Discovery'

October 15, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Creating 'Discovery'

A New Article Just Published in Terrae Incognitae

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October 15, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
October 10, 2020

Killing Cartography

October 10, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Killing Cartography

Clarifying My Call to Abandon the Ideal and the Prescriptivism It Stands for

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October 09, 2020

Review forum for Cartography: The Ideal and Its History

October 09, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Review forum for Cartography: The Ideal and Its History

Just published in the AAG Review of Books

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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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