Spicing up the World Map!
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Revealing comparison of two promotional maps made in 1931 and 1957 by the same company!
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Public Radio interview re History of Cartography
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Fairly wide ranging chat on Wisconsin Public Radio about how mapping has changed with digital technologies and on the History of Cartography series!
Read More"Comparative Map History" is published!
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Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography” is now officially published by Brill
Read MoreMapping the Social World of the Counterculture
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The Great Humbead’s “Revised Map of the World” (1968)
Read MoreNew book imminent ...
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Edney, Matthew H. 2025. Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations. Leiden: Brill.
Read MoreAn Update on the Facsimile(s) of the Borgia Map
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Again, why one must always — always! — look at the original if one can!
Read MoreMy 2024 Journal of Historical Geography Lecture is now available in preprint
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“Historical Geography and the Cartographic Illusion of Exceptionalism” – With a link for free download, available until 9 July 2025 !!
Read MoreA Cautionary Tale: Misreading the Palimpsest (Meitzen, Maitland, Bateson, Darby)
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What happens when someone does not cite a source properly, and misleads readers a century later!
Read MoreA New Essay on Single-Volume "Histories of Cartography"
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Single-volume histories of cartography are very much a twentieth-century phenomenon.
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