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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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    • Brief CV
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    • Comparative Map History
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
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January 24, 2021

Bauhaus and Map Collecting

January 24, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Bauhaus and Map Collecting

Yes, they’re connected!

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January 24, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
January 19, 2021

Comparative Cartography

January 19, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Comparative Cartography

A Succinct Example of the Core Methodology of Traditional Map History

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January 19, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
January 17, 2021

On the Destruction and Loss of Early (Wall) Maps

January 17, 2021/ Matthew Edney
On the Destruction and Loss of Early (Wall) Maps

Map Librarians Will Be Horrified!

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January 17, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
January 09, 2021

What Is a “Planisphere”?

January 09, 2021/ Matthew Edney
What Is a “Planisphere”?

Disambiguating a commonly used term that is potentially culturally biased

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January 09, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
December 31, 2020

Map History Books of 2020

December 31, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Map History Books of 2020

(and several missed from 2019)

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December 31, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
December 28, 2020

Newfound Old Maps of Maine

December 28, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Newfound Old Maps of Maine

Well, new to me, at least!

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December 28, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
December 20, 2020

New anti-"Flat Earth" Video

December 20, 2020/ Matthew Edney
New anti-"Flat Earth" Video

It’s a good one.

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December 20, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
December 18, 2020

Harley’s Understandable, but Misplaced, Criticism of Bagrow’s “History of Cartography”

December 18, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Harley’s Understandable, but Misplaced, Criticism of Bagrow’s “History of Cartography”

Or, the Problems of Relying on an Edited Translation without Referring to the Original

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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 08, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
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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 print and as an 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).

Available from my bibliography

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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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