Map History Books of 2019

In what is becoming something of a tradition (see 2018 and 2017, together with my idiosyncratic list of the best map history books of the decade), here’s my list of 2019 books in map history and cognate fields that came to my attention, many of which ended up on my own shelves. I also include a few books dated 2018 that did not make my last annual list.

As ever, my apologies if I left out something really obvious!

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Altić, Mirela Slukan. 2019. Cartography between Imperial Politics and National Movements: Nineteenth-Century Mapping of Croatia. Cartographica 54, no. 2: Monograph 55. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Ashworth, Mick. 2019. Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came from. Oxford: Bodleian Library.

Bailly, Jean-Christophe, Jean-Marc Besse, Philippe Grand, and Gilles Palsky. 2019. An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From Mountaintops to River Beds. A Selection of Comparative Maps and Tableaux. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Originally published as Le monde sur une feuille: les tableaux comparatifs de montagnes et de fleuves dans les atlas du XIXe siècle (Lyon: Fage, 2014).

Baumgärtner, Ingrid, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, and Katrin Kogman-Appel, eds. 2019. Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Imagination, and Visual Culture. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter.

Berg, Thomas Reinertsen. 2018. Theatre of the World: The Maps that Made History. Translated by Alison McCullough. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Boccaletti, Dino. 2019. The Shape and Size of the Earth: A Historical Journey from Homer to Artificial Satellites. Cham, Switz.: Springer International.

Brotton, Jerry, and Nick Millea. 2019. Fifty Maps and the Stories They Tell. Oxford: Bodleian Library.

———. 2019. Talking Maps. Oxford: Bodleian Library.

Cattaneo, Angelo, and Francisco Contente Domingues, eds. 2018. Shores of Vespucci: A Historical Research of Amerigo Vespucci’s Life and Contexts. Berlin: Peter Lang.

Clegg, Brian. 2019. Scientifica Historica: How the World’s Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge. London: Ivy Press.

Cunha, Dilip da. 2019. The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Delft, Maieke van, and Reinder Storm, eds. 2019. De geschiedenis van Nederland in 100 oude kaarten. s.n.: Tielt Lannoo.

Devaulx, Jacques. 2018 [1583]. Nautical Works: Oeuvres nautiques; nautische Werke. Edited by Jean-Yves Sarazin, and Élisabeth Hébert. Hohenzollernring: Taschen.

Doukellis, Panagiotis N., ed. 2019. Mediterranean Cartographic Stories: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Masterpieces from the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection. Nicosia: Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

Dumasy-Rabineau, Juliette, Nadine Gastaldi, and Camille Serchuk, eds. 2019. Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes: Vues et figures de l’espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance. Paris: Le Passage for Archives nationales.

I think this is my favorite book of the year, for its glorious array of manuscript maps!

Duncan, Dennis, and Adam Smyth, eds. 2019. Book Parts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dupont, Colin. 2019. Cartographie et pouvoir au XVIe siècle: L’atlas de Jacques de Deventer. Turnhout: Brepols.

Edney, Matthew H. 2019. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Flinders, Matthew, Philippa Sandall, and Gillian Dooley. 2019. Trim, the Cartographer’s Cat: The Ship’s Cat Who Helped Flinders Map Australia. London: Adland Coles.

Gestel-van het Schip, Paula van, ed. 2019. ICHC 2019: Old Maps, New Perspectives: Studying the History of Cartography in the 21st Century. Amsterdam: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen.

Gregg, Ryan E. 2019. City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts: Depictions of Rhetoric and Rule in the Sixteenth Century. Leiden: Brill.

Grim, Ronald E., and Allison K. Lange. 2019. America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century. Exhibition Catalog. Boston: Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library.

Groesen, Michiel van. 2019. Imagining the Americas in Print: Books, Maps and Encounters in the Atlantic World. Leiden: Brill.

Haddad, Thomás A. S. 2019. Maps of the Moon: Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age. Brill Research Perspectives in Map History 1.2. Leiden: Brill.

Hameleers, Marc, and Anne van Noord. 2019. Kaartboeken van Amsterdam, 1559–1703. Bussum, Neth.: Uitgeverij Thoth for the Stadsarchief Amsterdam.

Hidalgo, Alexander. 2019. Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Hofmann, Catherine, and François Nowrocki, eds. 2019. Le monde en sphères. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Holborn, Mark. 2019. Sun and Moon: A Story of Astronomy, Photography and Cartography. London, New York: Phaidon.

Huntington, Eric. 2018. Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Immerwahr, Daniel. 2019. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux.

Jordheim, Helga, and Erling Sandmo, eds. 2019. Conceptualizing the World: An Exploration across Disciplines. New York: Berghahn.

Kanas, Nick. 2019. Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography. 3rd ed. New York: Springer.

Kent, Alexander James, Soetkin Vervust, Imre Josef Demhardt, and Nick Millea, eds. 2019. Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea. 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2018. Heidelberg: Springer for the International Cartographic Association.

Lecky, Katarzyna. 2019. Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mir, Anita. 2019. The Inside City. London: Unbound.

A novel that drew some inspiration from my Mapping an Empire.

Monmonier, Mark. 2019. Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography. Redlands, Calif.: ESRI Press.

Morgan, Mary. 2019. Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps. London: Thames & Hudson.

Nie, Hongping Annie. 2019. The Selden Map of China: A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty. Oxford: Bodleian Library.

Novaes, André Reyes. 2019. Maps in Newspapers: Approaches to Study and Practices in Portraying War since the 19th Century. Brill Research Perspectives in Map History 1.1. Leiden: Brill.

Ovenden, Mark, and Maxwell Roberts. 2019. Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design. New York: Penguin Books.

Piechocki, Katharina N. 2019. Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rendgen, Sandra. 2019. History of Information Graphics. Edited by Julius Wiedmann. Cologne: Taschen.

Rossetto, Tania. 2019. Object-Oriented Cartography: Maps as Things. London: Routledge.

Rubin, Rehav. 2019. Portraying the Land: Hebrew Maps of the Land of Israel from Rashi to the early 20th Century. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.

Rumsey, Abby Smith, ed. 2019. Coordinates: Maps and Art. Exploring Shared Terrain. Stanford, Calif.: David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University.

Sauter, Michael J. 2019. The Spatial Reformation: Euclid between Man, Cosmos, and God. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Saxine, Ian. 2019. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. New York: New York University Press.

Schilder, Günter, and Hans Kok. 2019. Sailing across the World’s Oceans: History and Catalogue of Dutch Charts Printed on Vellum, 1580–1725. Leiden: Brill and Hes & De Graaf.

Schotte, Margaret E. 2019. Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Segal, Zef. 2019. The Political Fragmentation of Germany: Formation of German States by Infrastructures, Maps, and Movement, 1815–1866. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sinanoglou, Penny. 2019. Partioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Stone, Jeffrey P. 2019. British and American News Maps in the Early Cold War Period, 1945–1955: Mapping the “Red Menace”. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Taatgen, Alice, ed. 2019. The Universe of Amsterdam: Treasures of the Golden Age of Cartography. Translated by Beverley Jackson. Amsterdam: Stichtung Koninklijk Paleis.

Talbert, Richard J. A. 2019. Challenges of Mapping the Classical World. London: Routledge.

Tally, Robert T., Jr. 2019. Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Terkla, Dan, and Nick Millea, eds. 2019. A Critical Companion to English Mappae Mundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Martlesham, Suffok: Broyden.

Tyner, Judith A. 2019. Women in American Cartography: An Invisible Social History. Lexington Books: Lanham, Conn.

Van Duzer, Chet. 2020. Martin Waldseemüller’s ‘Carta marina’ of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends. Cham, Switz.: Springer Open.

Wilson, John S., Sierra M. Wilson, and Rachel DeShong. 2019. Mapping Texas: A Cartographic Journey, 1561–1860. Waco, Tex.: 1845 Books.

Zdebik, Jakub. 2019. Deleuze and the Map-Image: Aesthetics, Information, Code, and Digital Art. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.