An Early pro-Australian World Map
/An interesting map by an interesting scholar and artist.
Read MoreA blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
An interesting map by an interesting scholar and artist.
Read MoreMaps, Bodies, and Desire: The Gendered Construction of Territory - video of the presentation at the 2019 Barry Ruderman Conference on Cartography
Read MoreTo be an editor for Imago Mundi?
Read MoreAlso, the state as an organism: the nineteenth-century justification for imperial expansion!
Read MoreHow a German rent collector became an important map maker of the fifteenth century, at least in the eyes of early map historians
Read MoreExcept that people still forget this basic rule. An example prompted by the miscataloging of the map at left.
Read MoreThe cover map here is a low-res image pulled from the internet (e-bay, I think), from an 1897 US atlas that seems not yet to have been imaged fully and properly. Perhaps one of the sites listed in the pages listed here will host the atlas someday …
Read MoreSome online (and print) essays about maps in fantasy novels
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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