The Perils of Literality
/On reading a deeply flawed essay, I am stunned that it could ever have passed peer review. (How stunned am I? I have the mental capacity of a concussed bee.)
Read MoreA blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
On reading a deeply flawed essay, I am stunned that it could ever have passed peer review. (How stunned am I? I have the mental capacity of a concussed bee.)
Read MoreA brief note re Harvard College and then a look at the Library of Congress, its map collections, and P. Lee Phillips
Read MoreA simple way to remember the things that need to be considered in researching and writing map history.
Read More… about John Cullum’s wonderful map of Portland, Maine, from 1836
Read MoreSo pleased and honored to have been asked to write the foreword for Susan Schulten’s incredible new book in R J Andrews’ series, Information Graphic Visionaries
Read MoreAnd not just PowerPoint: Google Slides, Apple’s Keynote, Open/LibreOffice’s Impress, etc. are all great tools for showing images of maps in presentations, as long as some basic rules are followed!
Read MoreOn the origins of “cartobibliography” (a word I want to discard) in the work of Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis in the 1830s and 1840s
Read MoreAn eighteenth-century German post-road map which really surprised me last week, because of the manner in which its 16 plates were printed.
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.
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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