Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography” is now officially published by Brill

The Great Humbead’s “Revised Map of the World” (1968)

Edney, Matthew H. 2025. Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations. Leiden: Brill.

Again, why one must always — always! — look at the original if one can!

“Historical Geography and the Cartographic Illusion of Exceptionalism” – With a link for free download, available until 9 July 2025 !!

What happens when someone does not cite a source properly, and misleads readers a century later!

Single-volume histories of cartography are very much a twentieth-century phenomenon.

Mark Denil has been using me as a punching bag. I punch back. Here’s an image of weary people looking at a map (of the Chicago World’s Fair 1893)

A translation of Arnold Heeren’s prospectus for a new field of study … map history!