A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
Further to my interest in the history of map exhibitions, here’s an account of one I was led to yesterday by Benjamin Benus. It’s a modernist history of cartography as part of a grand wartime effort to redefine geography “for the future”
Read MoreSeveral of the presentations from the 2016 series of the Nebenzahl Lectures, by me, Pegg, Schulten, and Akerman
Read MoreI just can’t stay away from social media for the academic info
Read MoreAn interview with Libby Bischof about the map I blogged about for OML
Read MoreIn particular my response to Mark Denil’s attempt at an Aristotelian map philosophy that was borderline ad hominem towards myself.
Read MoreTime for the annual list of map history books!
Read MoreTime to leave the twitterverse … so use an RSS reader to keep track of new posts!
Read MoreOn 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 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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