Map History Books of 2021
/(and some missed from 2020)
Continuing the annual tradition (see 2020, and 2019 for links to earlier lists), here’s my list of 2021 books in map history and in related fields that came to my attention. I also append a few books dated 2020 that for whatever reason did not make previous lists. The list includes a couple of books copyrighted to 2022 that have already been printed. I found some interesting works listed at https://www.maproomblog.com/map-books-of-2021/.
This list is as comprehensive as I can make it. A couple of non-historical works are included, because they seem interesting. As ever, I am sorry if I left out something really obvious or important, if I mistook a catalog record of a forthcoming book for something actually published, or if I was too Anglocentric. While I’ve handled most of the works in the list, and many have ended up on my own shelves, the appearance of a book in the list does not necessarily imply that I have seen or that I approve of the work in question.
Akin, Alexander. 2021. East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and Its Trans-Regional Connections. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Anon. 2021. “The Power of Maps the Politics of Borders: Papers from the Conference Held at the American Philosophical Society, October 2019.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 110, no. 4: v–vii, 1–242.
Bellingradt, Daniel, and Claudia Heise. 2022. Eine Stadttour durch Hamburg im Jahr 1686: Die App Hidden Hamburg als erlebbare Geschichte und Digital-Public-History-Experiment. Bremen: edition lumière.
Blais, Hélène, Florence Deprest, and Pierre Singaravélou, eds. 2020. Territoires impériaux: Une histoire spatiale du fait colonial. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne.
Blank, Dick, and Peter van der Krogt. 2021. Geldria Ducatus: Geschiedenis en Cartobibliografie van het Hertogdom Gelderland tot 1860. Explokart Studies in the History of Cartography, 20. Brill: Leiden.
Blevins, Cameron. 2021. Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West. New York: Oxford University Press.
Brock, Aske Laursen, Guido van Meersbergen, and Edmond Smith, eds. 2022. Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World. New York: Routledge. [some map stuff]
Brosnan, Kathleen A., and James R. Akerman, eds. 2021. Mapping Nature across the Americas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Capello, Ernesto. 2020. Mapping Mountains. Brill Research Perspectives in Map History. Leiden: Brill.
Capello, Ernesto, and Julia B. Rosenbaum, eds. 2021. Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas. New York: Routledge.
Carraro, Valentina. 2021. Jerusalem Online: Critical Cartography for the Digital Age. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Clark, Robert. 2020. Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
Cohen, Philip, and Mike Duggan. 2021. New Directions in Radical Cartography: Why the Map is Never the Territory. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. [I have yet to see this work.]
Dalmau, Eduard. 2021. El porqué de los mapas. Barcelona: Debate.
Damen, Mario, and Kim Overlaet, eds. 2021. Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
de Lasa, Luis Ignacio, and María Teresa Luiz. 2021. The Southernmost End of South America through Cartography: Tierra del Fuego, the South Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica from the 16th to 19th Century. Cham: Springer.
de Rugy, Marie. 2021. Imperial Borderlands: Maps and Territory-Building in the Northern Indochinese Peninsula (1885–1914). Trans. Saskia Brown. Leiden: Brill.
Demeter, Gábor, and Zsolt Bottlik. 2021. Maps in the Service of the Nation: The Role of Ethnic Mapping in Nation-Building and Its Influence on Political Decision-Making Across the Balkan Peninsula (1840–1914). DigiOst, 12. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Dieckmann, Ute, ed. 2021. Mapping the Unmappable? Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa. Bielefeld: transcript.
Dym, Jordana. 2021. Mapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps. Brill Research Perspectives in Map History. Leiden: Brill.
Ellis, Patrick. 2021. Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird’s-Eye View. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fidler, Peter. 2020. From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains. Ed. Barbara Belyea. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.
Fraser, Gordon. 2021. Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press.
Friendly, Michael, and Howard Wainer. 2021. A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Fujikane, Candace. 2021. Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Gagné, Renaud. 2021. Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece: A Philology of Words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hess, Janet Berry, ed. 2021. Digital Mapping and Indigenous America. New York: Routledge.
Hiatt, Alfred. 2020. Dislocations: Maps, Classical Tradition, and Spatial Play in the European Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols.
———, ed. 2021. Cartography Between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100–1500: Divergent Traditions. Leiden: Brill.
Hiller, Peter. 2021. The Life and Times of Jo Mora: Iconic Artist of the American West. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith.
Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, and Louise Arizzoli, eds. 2020. Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents. Leiden: Brill.
Hustwit, Gary, ed. 2021. The New York Subway Map Debate at Cooper Union, April 20, 7:30pm. New York: Gary Hustwit and Standards Manual.
Iosefo, Fetaui, Stacy Holman Jones, and Anne Harris, eds. 2021. Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography. London: Routledge.
Ives, Katie. 2021. Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams. Seattle: Mountaineers Books.
Kātib Çelebi. 2021. An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā. Trans. Ferenc Csirkés, John Curry, and Gary Leiser. Ed. Gottfried Hagen and Robert Dankoff. Leiden: Brill.
Lange, Diana, and Benjamin van der Linde, eds. 2021. Farbe trifft Landkarte: Ausstellungskatalog / Colour Meets Map: Exhibition Catalogue. manuscript cultures, 16. Hamburg: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture, Universität Hamburg.
Leoni, Simona Boscani, Sarah Baumgartner, and Meike Knittel, eds, 2022. Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850. Leiden: Brill.
Lobo-Guerrero, Luis, Laura Lo Presti, and Filipe Dos Reis, eds. 2021. Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires. Lanham, Conn.: Rowman & Littlefield.
Moerman, D. Max. 2021. The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. [supposedly being released on 31 December 2021]
Moro, Simonetta. 2021. Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography. London: Routledge.
Murawska-Muthesius, Katarzyna. 2021. Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc. London: Routledge.
Nurse, Bernard. 2020. Town: Prints and Drawings of Britain before 1800. Oxford: Bodleian Library.
Pyne, Stephen J. 2021. The Great Ages of Discovery: How Western Civilization Learned about a Wider World. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Rodighiero, Dario. 2021. Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization. Geneva: Métis Presses.
Roland, Meg. 2022. Mirror of the World: Literature, Maps, and Geographic Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. London: Routledge.
Salvadori, Pierre-Ange. 2021. Le nord de la Renaissance: La carte, l’humanisme suédois et la genèse de l’Arctique. Paris: Classiques Garnier.
Shelburne, Orville B. 2020. From Presidio to the Pecos River: Surveying the United States–Mexico Boundary along the Rio Grande, 1852 and 1853. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Sills, Adam. 2021. Against the Map: The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Valleriani, Matteo, ed. 2020. De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries. Cham, Switz.: SpringerLink.
Van Brummelen, Glen. 2021. The Doctrine of Triangles: A History of Modern Trigonometry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. [not directly map-related but foundational]
Wilmott, Clancy. 2020. Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography and the Digital. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
