A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
Jerry Brotton and I talk about the 1662 world map by Joan Blaeu, commercial mapping in 17th century Amsterdam, the History of Cartography Project, women and mapping, and how I got interested in early maps!
Read MoreWhen maps of oceans are not actually charts (the converse of early maps of continents that are called charts!)
Read MoreTime for the annual list! (Image is open-source stock.)
Read MoreInterpreting the great continent of “Jave le grande” to deride James Cook.
Read MoreBefore Buckminster Fuller and Bernard Cahill and their angular, fragmented world maps, there was Richard A. Proctor and his Star Atlas (1870), New Star Atlas (1874), and Student’s Atlas (1889)
Read MoreThese are not as straightforward questions as they might seem (and certainly as I had always been led to believe!)
Read Moreon the practices (plural!) of studying early maps before 1800 and before the emergence of any systematic field of "map history"
Read MoreReflections on shifting contemporary and historiographic attitudes towards these oversized globes
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 July 2025, in print and 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).
Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.
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