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Mapping as Process

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    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
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    • 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/
    • Comparative Map History
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
  • Bibliographies/
    • Classified (with download links)
    • Regular Format
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February 17, 2021

A “Radically Different” World Map?

February 17, 2021/ Matthew Edney
A “Radically Different” World Map?

Not actually so different, after all. A mindboggling, gobsmacking claim!

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February 17, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
January 31, 2021

Irene Jean Curnow (active 1921–30)

January 31, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Irene Jean Curnow (active 1921–30)

Forgotten Internal Map Historian

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January 31, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
January 24, 2021

Zoom Interview on 4 Feb 2021

January 24, 2021/ Matthew Edney
Zoom Interview on 4 Feb 2021

If you want to listen to me burble about Cartography: The Ideal and Its History

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January 24, 2021/ Matthew Edney/
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/
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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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