A Stunning Realization
/How could I have missed this?
Read MoreA blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
My opening remarks for the “Frontier Forum on Cartographic History & International Seminar on The History of Cartography Translation Project,” Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, held at Yunnan University (Chenggong Campus), 25 August 2019
Read MoreThe catalogue raisonée of 16th-century Italian commercial mapping perpetuates a singular failing among map historians
Read MoreThe Difficulties of Property Surveying in Colonial Massachusetts Bay
Read MoreListen to the podcast of the interview with Steven Seegel.
Read MoreIs the Metric System (International System of Units) really an agent of tyranny and state oppression, while the U.S. system of weights and measures is a beacon of liberty?
Read MoreThe 1793 Plan of William Bingham’s Maine Lands
Read MoreBy Karl Peucker, a prominent German cartographer, 1902
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.
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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