Matthew H. Edney:
Bibliography (Regular Format)

This bibliography lists my publications by type, further distinguishing between peer-reviewed and other; it excludes essays on this website. A parallel list of my publications classified by topic provides links to downloadable PDFs for most of the works.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Books and Monographs

[MHE and Mary S. Pedley, eds.] Cartography in the European Enlightenment. Volume 4 of The History of Cartography. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. [released in 2020] ISBN: 978-0-226-18475-3 cloth; 978-0-226-33922-1 e-book.

Cartography: The Ideal and Its History. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-226-60554-8 cloth; 978-0-226-60568-5 paper; 978-0-226-60571-5 e-book.

The Origins and Development of J. B. Harley’s Cartographic Theories. Cartographica Monograph 54. Cartographica 40, nos. 1–2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. ISSN 0317–7173.

Mapping an Empire: The Geographic Construction of British India, 1765–1843. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-226-18487-6 cloth; 978-0-226-18488-3 paper; 978-0-226-18486-9 e-book. Reprinted, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999 (ISBN 019–565172–3).

• chapter 1 (pp. 1–36), “The Ideologies and Practices of Mapping and Imperialism,” was reprinted in Social History of Science in Colonial India, ed. S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007), 25–68.

Articles and Book Chapters

“The First Facsimile Collections and the Parisian Origins of the History of Cartography.” Imago Mundi 75, no. 1 (2023): 1–22.

“Latitude, Longitude, and Geospatial Technologies to 1885.” In The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society, ed. Alexander J. Kent, and Doug Specht, 7–22. London: Routledge, 2023.

“Making Explicit the Implicit, Idealized Understanding of ‘Map’ and ‘Cartography’: An Anti-Universalist Response to Mark Denil.” Cartographic Perspectives 98 (2022): 51–60.

“Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures: The Nebenzahl Lectures and the Study of Map History.” Journal of Map & Geography Libraries 17, nos. 2–3 (2021): 95–147 [published January 2023].

[MHE and Mary S. Pedley] “Writing Cartography’s Enlightenment.” In special issue, “Enlightening Cartography: 25 Years of the Oxford Symposium on Cartography,” ed. Elizabeth Baigent and Nick Millea. Cartographic Journal 57, no. 4 (2020): 312–44. [published online June 2021]

“Creating ‘Discovery’: The Myth of Columbus, 1777–1828.” Terrae Incognitae 52, no. 2 (2020): 195–213.

Contributions to Cartography in the European Enlightenment, ed. MHE and Mary S. Pedley. Volume 4 of The History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. [published April 2020]

• [MHE and Pedley] “Preface” (xix–xxi); [MHE and Pedley] “Introduction” (xxiii–xxxvii); “British America” (222–26); “Celestial Mapping in the Enlightenment” (259–74); [MHE and Nicholas Dew] “Geodesy and the Size and Shape of the Earth” (433–39); (Geodetic Surveying) “Geodetic Surveying in the Enlightenment” (439–50); (Geographical Mapping) “Geographical Mapping in the Enlightenment” (474–89); “German States” (562–66); “Green, John” (586–88); (Height Measurement) “Altimetry” (600–2); “History and Cartography” (624–31); (Instruments for Angle Measurement) “Great Theodolite” (687–89); [Pedley and MHE] (Map Collecting) “Map Collecting in the Enlightenment” (756–59); (Measures, Linear) “Linear Measures in the Enlightenment” (926–27); “Meridians, Local and Prime” (936–42); “Modes of Cartographic Practice” (1017–19); “United States of America” (1527–29).

Contributions to The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography, ed. Alexander J. Kent and Peter Vujakovic. London: Routledge, 2017.

• “Map History: Discourse and Process” (68–79); “Mapping, Survey and Science” (145–58); “The Rise of Systematic, Territorial Surveys” (159–72)

“History of Cartography.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, ed. Barney Warf. 2nd, revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 26 July 2017. Online at www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0032.xml.

• first edition, 27 November 2013, not archived by OUP.

Contributions to Cartography in the Twentieth Century, ed. Mark Monmonier. Volume 6 of The History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

• “Harley, J(ohn) Brian” (577–79); “Histories of Cartography” (607–14); “History of Cartography Project” (614–16); “Modes of Cartographic Practice” (978–80); “Woodward, David” (1761–64)

“Cartography and Its Discontents.” In “‘Deconstructing the Map’: 25 Years On,” ed. Reuben Skye Rose-Rosewood. Cartographica 50, no. 1 (2015): 9–13.

Contributions to “People, Places and Ideas in the History of Cartography,” ed. Michael Heffernan. Imago Mundi 66 suppl. (2014).

• “Academic Cartography, the Internal History of Cartography, and the Critical Study of Mapping Processes” (83–106); “A Content Analysis of Imago Mundi, 1935–2010” (107–31)

“Field/Map: An Historiographic Review and Reconsideration.” In Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions, ed. Kristian H. Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier, and Christopher J. Ries, 431–56. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012.

“Competition over Land, Competition over Empire: Public Discourse and Printed Maps of the Kennebec River, 1753–1755.” In Early American Cartographies, ed. Martin Brückner, 276–305. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2011.

“Knowledge and Cartography in the Early Atlantic.” In Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, c.1450–1820, ed. Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan, 87–112. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

“A Cautionary Historiography of ‘John Smith’s New England.’” Cartographica 46, no. 1 (2011): 1–27.

“Simon de Passe’s Cartographic Portrait of Captain John Smith and a New England (1616/7).” Word & Image 26, no. 2 (2010): 186–213.

“The Anglophone Place Names Associated with John Smith’s Description and Map of New England.” Names: A Journal of Onomastics 57, no. 4 (2009): 189–207.

“The Irony of Imperial Mapping.” In The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. James R. Akerman, 11–45. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

“John Mitchell’s Map of North America (1755): A Study of the Use and Publication of Official Maps in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Imago Mundi 60, no. 1 (2008): 63–85.

“A Publishing History of John Mitchell’s Map of North America, 1755–1775.” Cartographic Perspectives 58 (2007): 4–27 and 71–75.

• reprinted as “A história da publicação do mapa da América do Norte de John Mitchell de 1755,” trans. Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Varia História [Universidade Federale Minas Gerais] 37 (2007): 30–50.

“Mapping Parts of the World.” In Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, ed. James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow, Jr., 117–57. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the Field Museum and the Newberry Library, 2007.

“Putting ‘Cartography’ into the History of Cartography: Arthur H. Robinson, David Woodward, and the Creation of a Discipline.” Cartographic Perspectives 51 (2005): 14–29.

• reprinted with revisions and excisions in Critical Geographies: A Collection of Readings, ed. Harald Bauder and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro (Praxis (e)Press, 2008), 711–28. Online at www.praxis-epress.org/availablebooks/introcriticalgeog.html.

[MHE and Susan Cimburek] “Telling the Traumatic Truth: William Hubbard’s Narrative of King Philip’s War and his ‘Map of New-England.’” William & Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 61, no. 2 (2004): 317–48.

“Bringing India to Hand: Mapping an Empire, Denying Space.” In The Global Eighteenth Century, ed. Felicity Nussbaum, 65–78 and 334–36. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Reprinted in paperback, 2005.

“Reconsidering Enlightenment Geography and Map-Making: Reconnaissance, Mapping, Archive.” In Geography and Enlightenment, ed. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers, 165–98. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

“Theory and the History of Cartography.” Imago Mundi 48 (1996): 185–91.

• reprinted as “Teoria e história da cartografia,” trans. André Reyes Novaes, Espaço e Cultura 39 (2017): 7–18.

“Cartographic Culture and Nationalism in the Early United States: Benjamin Vaughan and the Choice for a Prime Meridian, 1811.” Journal of Historical Geography 20, no. 4 (1994): 384–95.

“Mathematical Cosmography and the Social Ideology of British Cartography, 1780–1820.” Imago Mundi 46 (1994): 101–16.

“British Military Education, Mapmaking, and Military ‘Map-Mindedness’ in the Later Enlightenment.” Cartographic Journal 31, no. 1 (1994): 14–20.

“Cartography without ‘Progress’: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking.” Cartographica 30, nos. 2–3 (1993): 54–68.

• reprinted in Mapping, ed. Martin Dodge, 4 vols. (London: Routledge, 2015), 1: item 10.

• reprinted in Human Geography, ed. Derek Gregory and Noel Castree, 5 vols. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE, 2012), 2:271–96. One of just three papers on cartography (with another three on GIS) among eighty essays.

• excerpted in The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation, ed. Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 73–82.

• reprinted in Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica, ed. Martin Dodge (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 305–29.

“The Patronage of Science and the Creation of Imperial Space: The British Mapping of India, 1799–1843.” In Introducing Cultural and Social Cartography, ed. Robert A. Rundstrom, 61–67. Cartographica 30, no. 1 (1993): Monograph 44.

“The Atlas of India, 1823–1947: The Natural History of a Topographic Map Series.” Cartographica 28, no. 4 (1991): 59–91.

“Strategies for Maintaining the Democratic Nature of a Geographic Information System.” Papers and Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences 14 (1991): 100–8.

“Politics, Science, and Government Mapping Policy in the United States, 1800–1925.” The American Cartographer 13 (1986): 295–306.

Other Publications

Edited Works

[ed.] Program, Abstracts, and Participants: 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography / Programme, résumés, et liste de participants: 20e Congrès Internationale de l’Histoire de Cartographie. Portland: Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, for Imago Mundi, Ltd., 2003. (160 pp.)

[MHE and Irwin D. Novak, eds.] Reading the World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Pieter van den Keere’s Map, “Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula” (Amsterdam, 1608/36). Occasional Publication of the Osher Library Associates, 1. Portland: University of Southern Maine for the Osher Library Associates, 2001. ISBN 0–939561–31–X paper. (x + 42 pp.)

Longer Essays

“Portland in 1836: John Cullum’s Pictorial Map.” Blog for Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. 29 November 2022. oshermaps.org/blog/portland-in-1836-john-cullums-pictorial-map/

“Foreword.” In Susan Schulten, Emma Willard: Maps of History, 9–11. San Francisco: Visionary Press, 2022.

“Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis, Localist Map History and Cartobibliography.” In Atlantes amicorum Peter van der Krogt, ed. Paula van Gestel-van het Schip, 313–23. Leiden: Brill | Hes & De Graaf Publishers, 2022.

“The Copy: Printing Processes and the Reproduction of Early Maps, 1830–1945.” Portolan 113 (2022): 48–63.

“Putting Maps Back into Context.” Special essay for the History of Cartography Project, 17 November 2021. geography.wisc.edu/histcart/2021-extras.

“Foreword.” In Marie de Rugy, Imperial Borderlands: Maps and Territory-Building in the Northern Indochinese Peninsula (1885–1914), trans. Saskia Brown, vii–x. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

“Auf die Farbe kommt es an / Colour Matters.” In Farbe trifft Landkarte: Ausstellungskatalog / Colour Meets Map: Exhibition Catalogue, ed. Diana Lange and Benjamin van der Linde, 11–16. manuscript cultures, 16. Hamburg: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture, Universität Hamburg, 2021.

“Joachim Lelewel’s Editing of Early Maps, ca. 1850.” Portolan 111 (2021): 23–30.

“Norman Joseph William Thrower (23 October 1919–2 September 2020).” Imago Mundi 73, no. 1 (2021): 88–91.

“Last Word.” In “Mapping Our World: How Maps Reveal the Way We See Ourselves.” Library of Congress Magazine 10, no. 3 (May/June 2021): 28. www.loc.gov/lcm/.

“The Maps We Play….” Special essay for the History of Cartography Project, 25 November 2020. geography.wisc.edu/histcart/2020-extras.

“Rethinking ‘Cartography.’” Author’s response to review forum on Cartography: The Ideal and Its History, ed. Jörn Seemann, 231–34. AAG Review of Books 8, no. 4 (2020): 223–35.

[MHE, Mary S. Pedley, and Melanie Viets] “The History of Cartography.” Root Mapping, The Learned Pig. 22 September 2020. www.thelearnedpig.org/the-history-of-cartography/9384.

“Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677–1842.” Calafia: Journal of the California Map Society 2020, no. 2 (2020): 13–16.

[interview with Cheng Yinong and Bao Su]《地图学史》项目与未来中国地图学史研究：访马修·H.埃德尼教授 / “History of Cartography Project and the Future of the Study of Cartographic History in China.” 思想战线 / Sixiang Zhanxian / Thinking 46, no. 2 (2020): 48–55. (in Mandarin)

[MHE and Mary S. Pedley] “Cartography in the European Enlightenment: A Map Collector’s View.” Journal of the International Map Collectors’ Society [IMCoS] 158 (2019): 23–36.

“New Directions in the Historical Study of Mapping Processes / 地图绘制过程历史研究的新方向.” In 地图学史前沿论坛暨“《地图学史》翻译工程” 国际研讨会论文集 / Proceedings of Frontier Forum on Cartographic History & International Seminar on The History of Cartography Translation Project, ed. Cheng Yinong, 2: 511–50. 2 vols. Kunming: Yunnan University for the Institute for History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2019.

“‘Analemmas’ on Globes.” Globe Studies: The Journal of the International Coronelli Society 64/65 (2018): 37–58.

• simultaneously published as “»Analemmata« auf Globen,” trans. Andreas Christoph, Der Globusfreund 64/65 (2018): 39–61.

“References to the Fore! Local Boosters, Historians, and Engineers Map Antebellum Portland, Maine.” Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. Online, 1 July 2017. www.oshermaps.org/special-map-exhibits/references-to-the-fore.

[MHE and Roger J. P. Kain] “«世界地图学史» 的编纂 (1977–2022)” [“The History of Cartography Series (1977–2022).”] Trans. 夏晗登 [Handeng Xia]. «历史地理», 上海人民出版社 [Chinese Journal of Historical Geography (Shanghai People’s Publishing House)] 34 (2017): 263–66.

“Hugh, Earl Percy Remakes His Map of New England.” Portolan 84 (2012): 27–37.

“Cartography’s ‘Scientific Reformation’ and the Study of Topographical Mapping in the Modern Era.” In History of Cartography: International Symposium of the ICA Commission, 2010, ed. Elri Liebenberg and Imre Josef Demhardt, 287–303. Publications of the International Cartographic Association, 2. Heidelberg: Springer for the International Cartographic Association, 2012.

“Plus ça change: Defining Academic Cartography for the Twenty-First Century.” Essay Review of The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation, ed. Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). Cartographica 47, no. 1 (2012): 66–71.

“Progress and the Nature of ‘Cartography.’” In Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica, ed. Martin Dodge, 331–42. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Contributions to The Dictionary of Human Geography, ed. Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore. 5th ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.

• “Cartography, History of” (69–72); “Geo-Body” (274–75); “Map-Reading” (439)

“Mapping Empires, Mapping Bodies: Reflections on the Use and Abuse of Cartography.” Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia 63 (2007): 83–104.

“Uncharted Territory.” Times Higher Education 1819 (9 November 2007): 16–19. Available online at www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode= 311079.

“Printed but Not Published: Limited-Circulation Maps of Territorial Disputes in Eighteenth-Century New England.” In Mappæ Antiquæ: Liber Amicorum Günter Schilder. Essays on the occasion of his 65th birthday, ed. Paula van Gestel-van het Schip and Peter van der Krogt, 147–58. Utrechtse Historisch-Cartografische Studies / Utrecht Studies in the History of Cartography, 6. ’t Goy-Houten, Neth.: HES & De Graaf Publishers, 2007.

“Recent Trends in the History of Cartography: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography to the English-Language Literature.” Version 2.1. Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. B, no. 6 (11 April 2007). https://www.stonybrook.edu/libmap/coordinates.htm.

• version 2.0 was published as Coordinates, ser. B, no. 6 (10 March 2006).

• version 1.0 was originally prepared in 1998 for private circulation; version 1.1 was circulated online in 1999 for the Atlantic History seminar, organized by Bernard Bailyn at Harvard University (www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/Bibliographies/bibliographyEdney.html).

[MHE, Jack Lamb, and George S. Carhart, comps.] “Bibliography of the Works of Moses Greenleaf.” In Walter M. Macdougall, Settling the Maine Wilderness: Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, and His Household of Faith, 1777–1834, 125–27. Occasional Publication of the Osher Library Associates, 3. Portland, Me.: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, for the Osher Library Associates, 2006.

“David Woodward: An Appreciation.” Cartographic Perspectives 51 (2005): 58–59.

“David Alfred Woodward (1942–2004).” Imago Mundi 57, no. 1 (2005): 75–83.

“Maps.” In The Encyclopedia of New England: The Culture and History of an American Region, ed. Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters, 584­–85. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005.

“New England Mapped: The Creation of a Colonial Territory.” In La Cartografia europea tra primo Rinascimento e fine dell’Illuminismo: Atti del Convegno Internazionale “The Making of European Cartography” (Firenze, BNCF-EUI, 13–15 dicembre 2001), ed. Diogo Ramada Curto, Angelo Cattaneo, and André Ferrand de Almeida, 155–76. Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere “La Colombaria,” Studi 213. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2003.

“Works by J. B. Harley.” In J. B. Harley, The New Nature of Cartography, ed. Paul Laxton, 281–96. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001; reprinted 2005.

• reprinted as “Obras de J. B. Harley,” in J. B. Harley, La nueva naturaleza de los mapas: Ensayos sobre la historia de la cartografia, ed. Paul Laxton (Mexico City: Fondo de cultura económica, 2005), 331–48.

[George S. Carhart with MHE] “An Exercise in Map Genealogy: Guillaume Delisle’s L’Amerique Septentrionale and its Many Offspring.” Mercator’s World 6, no. 4 (2001): 44–49 and 6, no. 5 (2001): 28–35.

[Yolanda Theunissen and MHE] “The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education/Charting Neptune’s Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery.” Cartographic Perspectives 36 (2000): 92–94.

Contributions to Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena, ed. Gregory A. Good. 2 vols. Garland Encyclopedias in the History of Science, 3. New York: Garland, 1998.

• “Cartography, Disciplinary History” (1:81–85); “Geography, Disciplinary History” (1:277–82); “Geography, The Word” (1:298)

“Strategic Planning in the American Revolution: Hugh, Earl Percy and the Cartographic Image of New England in the Eighteenth Century.” Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. Online, 19 April 1998. www.oshermaps.org/special-map-exhibits/percy-map.

“Defining a Unique City: Surveying and Mapping Bombay after 1800.” In Bombay to Mumbai: Changing Perspectives, ed. Pauline Rohatgi, Pheroza Godrej, and Rahul Mehrota, 40–57. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1997; reprinted, 2001 and 2007.

• one of four essays selected from the eighteen in the book for simultaneous publication in Marg: A Magazine of the Arts 48, no. 4 (1997): 28–45.

“The Mitchell Map: An Irony of Empire.” Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. Online, 21 April 1997. www.oshermaps.org/special-map-exhibits/mitchell-map.

“The Basel 1494 Columbus Letter.” Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. Online, 14 October 1996. www.oshermaps.org/special-map-exhibits/columbus-letter.

“The History of Cartography and Cartographic Education: Responding to Institutional and Theoretical Changes.” In Proceedings of the Seminar on Teaching the History of Cartography II, held at The Newberry Library, Chicago, June 23, 1993, during the 15th International Conference on the History of Cartography, ed. F. J. Ormeling and Yde T. Bourma, 45–49. Utrecht: International Cartographic Association, 1994.

[Helen Wallis and MHE] “Cartography.” In Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, ed. Ivor Grattan-Guinness, 1101–14. London: Routledge, 1994. Repr. London: Routledge, 2003; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

“Cartographic Confusion and Nationalism: The Meridian of Washington, DC, in the Early 19th Century.” Mapline: Newsletter of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at The Newberry Library 69–70 (1993): 4–8.

“J. B. Harley (1932–1991): Questioning Maps, Questioning Cartography, Questioning Cartographers.” Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 19, no. 3 (1992): 175–78.

“Mapping and the Early Modern State: The Intellectual Nexus of Late Tudor and Early Stuart Mapping. Essay review of Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).” Cartographica 29, nos. 3–4 (1992): 89–93.

“Systematic Surveys and Mapping Policy in British India, 1757–1830.” Colonel Sir George Everest CB FRS: Proceedings of the Bicentenary Conference at the Royal Geographical Society, 8th November 1990, ed. James R. Smith, 1–11. London: Royal Geographical Society and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 1990.

“The Ordnance Survey and British Surveys in India.” Sheetlines: Newsletter of the Charles Close Society 26 (1989): 3–8 and 27 (1990): 9–10.

[Untitled] In “Responses to J. B. Harley’s Article, ‘Deconstructing the Map,’ Published in the Last Issue of Cartographica (Volume 26, Number 2, Summer 1989, pp. 1–20),” ed. Edward H. Dahl, 93–96. Cartographica 26, nos. 3–4 (1989): 89–121.

“The Thirteenth International Conference on the History of Cartography, Amsterdam, 26–30 June, 1989: A Review and Perspective.” Cartographica 26, nos. 3–4 (1989): 121–27.

Short Pieces

“Spotlight on the Membership: Matthew H. Edney.” Portolan 102 (2018): 73.

“Prologue.” In Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez, Marginalia in cARTography: Exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, February 28–May 18, 2014, 3. Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, 2014. Published online at www.chazen.wisc.edu/about/multimedia-center/publications/.

“The Eagle Map of the United States.” Map commentary for the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. Online, September 2014. oshermaps.org/category/map_of_the_month/

Map commentaries for the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. oshermaps.org/category/map_of_the_month/

“Maps as Commodities” (February 2013); “Napoleonic Plan of Boulogne’s Defenses” (January 2013)

“The Lessons of a Generic Map: The 1793 Map of William Bingham’s Maine Lands.” In “Cartographic Conversation,” ed. Jordana Dym. Online at https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_ Library/exhibitions/ cartographic/index.html. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksBUYJjUtBQ for the presentation. Providence, R.I.: John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, online 7 June 2012.

Map commentaries for the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. https://oshermaps.org/category/map_of_the_month/

• “‘The Most Important Map in U.S. History’”; “Mapping the Entire Cosmos: Heavens and Earth”; “Mapping U.S. History in the Early Republic” (August 2012)

“Foreword.” In Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader, ed. Jordana Dym and Karl Offen, xv–xvii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

“Foreword.” In Edward V. Thompson, Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine, 1793–1860: An Illustrated and Comparative Study, vii. Orono, Me.: Stillwater Press, 2010.

The Surveyor as a ‘Madman.’ Commentary for Annual Broadsheet, 15. Madison: The Silver Buckle Press, University of Wisconsin, for the History of Cartography Project, 2007. See https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/literary-selections/.

The Moon Mapp’d: Imagining a New World. Commentary for Annual Broadsheet, 14. Madison: The Silver Buckle Press, University of Wisconsin, for the History of Cartography Project, 2006. See https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/ literary-selections/.

“Puritan New England’s Precarious Perch on ‘this Western Coast.’” In The Map Book, ed. Peter Barber, 176–77. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.

“Eighteenth-Century Maps of New England and the Intersections of Manuscript Circulation and Print Publication.” In Actas = Proceedings = Comptes-rendus / XIX Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Cartografía = 19th International Conference on the History of Cartography = XIX Congrès International d’Histoire de la Cartographia: Madrid 1–6, VII, 2001, ed. Victoria Arias Roca, [Abstracts] 44–45. Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa, Secretaria General Técnica, 2002.

[MHE and Irwin D. Novak] “Editors’ Preface.” In Reading the World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Pieter van den Keere’s Map, “Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula” (Amsterdam, 1608/36), ed. mhe and Irwin D. Novak, ix. Occasional Publication of the Osher Library Associates, 1. Portland: University of Southern Maine for the Osher Library Associates, 2001.

Book Reviews

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, When Maps Become the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020). H-Net Reviews, 18 March 2021. https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/7441771.

Catherine Hofmann and François Nowrocki, eds., Le monde en sphères (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2019). Portolan 106 (2019): 62–63.

J. H. Andrews, Maps in Those Days: Cartographic Methods Before 1850 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009). English Historical Review 126 (2011): 1205–6.

Franz Reitinger, Kleiner Atlas Amerikanischer Überempfindlichkarten (Klagenfurt: Ritter Verlag, 2008). Cartographica 46, no. 1 (2011): 55–57.

Avraham Ariel and Nora Ariel Berger, Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line, Explorations in World Maritime History (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006). The Historian 72, no. 1 (2010): 242–43.

Dov Gavish, The Survey of Palestine under the British Mandate, 1920–1948, RoutledgeCurzon Studies in Middle East History, 3 (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005). Imago Mundi 59, no. 2 (2007): 241–42.

Ian J. Barrow, Making History, Drawing Territory: British Mapping in India, c. 1756–1905 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003). Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 33, no. 1 (2005): 125–27.

Mary Pedley, ed., The Map Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century: Letters to the London Map Sellers Jefferys & Faden, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2000:06 (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000). Imago Mundi 54 (2002): 160–61.

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