Map History Books Published in 2022
/It’s time for the annual list. I doubt if I’ll see or read about any more map history books from the past year, or others from 2020 and 2021 that I missed, before New Years.
Previous lists are from 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017.
As ever, inclusion in this list does not mean that I’ve actually seen the book. I do have many of the following, and the Osher Map Library has many more, but some I still know only from library catalogs. There are a couple I’ve ordered but have yet to arrive.
Similarly, inclusion is not a sign of approbation; I’m just presenting the titles that I have encountered.
Note: for the most part, I generally include books according to their US publication date, although I do include here a couple of books that were published in the UK in 2022 but that are listed with 2023 dates on online sales platforms.
Do I have any favorites from this year’s haul? It’s a bit of a grab bag, as ever, given the sheer breadth of this field. I can say that I highly approve of the three works published by R. J. Andrews and Visionary Press, not only for their intellectual takes on three nineteenth-century pioneers in data visualization but from the great care that R. J. took in reproducing the maps and graphs at size, in color, fold-outs and all! They’re listed below under Andrews, Marey, and Schulten.
Have fun reading!
Altić, Mirela Slukan. 2022. Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography of the Americas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Andrews, R. J., ed. 2022. Florence Nightingale: Mortality and Health Diagrams. San Francisco: Visionary Press.
Arnaud, Jean-Luc. 2022. La carte de France: Histoire & techniques. Marseilles: Parenthèses.
Aubin, David. 2020. Femmes, vulgarisation et pratique des sciences au siècle des Lumières: Les “Dialogues sur l’astronomie” et la “Lettre sur la figure de la Terre” de César-François Cassini de Thury. Turnhout: Brepols.
Barford, Megan. 2022. A is for Atlas: Wonders of Maps and Mapping. London: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Barrett, Katy. 2022. Looking for Longitude: A Cultural History. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press.
Baudez, Basile. 2021. Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Baumann, Anette, Sabiney Schmolinsk, and Evelien Timpener, eds. 2020. Raum und Recht: Visualisierung von Rechtsansprüchen in der Vormoderne. Munich: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
Baumgärtner, Ingrid. 2022. Mapping Narrations–Narrating Maps: Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Edited by Daniel Gneckow, Anna Hollenbach, and Phillip Landgrebe. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Bavaj, Riccardo, Konrad Lawson, and Bernhard Struck, eds. 2022. Doing Spatial History. London: Routledge.
Beaucher, Steven. 2020. Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub. Cambridge, Mass.: WardMaps.
Beck, Lauren. 2022. Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them. Montreal: Concordia University Press.
———, ed. 2022. “The Social Lives of Maps.” Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle 92–93: 54–109 and 94: 12–103.
Benus, Benjamin. 2021. Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Mid-Century. Rochester, N.Y.: RIT Press.
Besse, Jean-Marc, ed. 2022. Forme du savoir, forme de pouvoir: Les atlas géographiques à la époque moderne et contemporaine. Paris: École française de Rome.
Brockmann, Sophie. 2020. The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Brook, Timothy. 2020. Completing the Map of the World: Cartographic Interaction between China and Europe (Quantu: Zhongguo yu Ouzhou zhijian de ditu xue hudong). Taipei: Institute for Modern History, Academica Sinica (Zhongyang yanjiuyuan, Jindaishi yanjiu).
Bruce, Bertram C. 2021. Thinking with Maps: Understanding the World through Spatialization. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
•• a really interesting (although unfortunately too credulous re map history) assessment of the use of myriad forms of more popular maps in education, past and present, through way finding, constructing, learning, expressing, solving, connecting, entering the map, and ending with “what is a map?”
Blond, Stéphane, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Valérie Nègre, and Michèle Virol, eds. 2021. Les ingénieurs, des intermédiaires? Transmission et coopération à l’épreuve du terrain (Europe, XVe–XVIIIe siècle). Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Midi.
Boistel, Guy. 2022. Pour la gloire de M de la Lande: Une histoire matérielle, scientifique, institutionnelle et humaine de la Connaissance des temps, 1679–1920. Paris.
Boscani Leoni, Simona, Sarah Baumgartner, and Meike Knittel, eds. 2022. Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700–1850. Leiden: Brill.
Boskamp, Ulrike, Amrei Buchholz, Annette Kranen, and Tanja Michalsky, eds. 2020. Verkoppelte Räume: Karte und Bildfolge als mediales Dispositiv. Munich: Hirmer.
Burkart, Lucas, and Beate Fricke, eds. 2022. Shifting Horizons: A Line and Its Movement in Art, History, and Philosophy. Basel: Schwabe Verlag.
Caboara, Marco. 2022. Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735. Leiden: Brill.
Chartier, Roger. 2022. Cartes et fictions (XVIe–XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Collège de France.
Cheng, Yinong. 2022. “Nonscientific” Traditional Maps of China: A Study of Traditional Chinese Mapmaking. Trans. Su Bao. Singapore: Springer.
Damen, Mario, and Kim Overlaet, eds. 2022. Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
Davis, Martin. 2021. A Cartographic Analysis of Soviet Military City Plans. Cham: Springer.
Debarbieux, Bernard, and Irène Hirt, eds. 2022. The Politics of Mapping. Hoboken: ISTE / John Wiley and Sons.
Dodds, Phil. 2022. The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh. Woodbridge, Suff.: Boydell Press.
Donecker, Stefan, Petra Svatek, and Elisabeth Klecker, eds. 2021. Wolfgang Lazius (1514–1565): Geschichtsschreibung, Kartographie und Altertumswissenschaft im Wien des 16. Jahrhunderts. Vienna: Praesens.
Doré, Andréa, and Júnia Ferreira Furtado, eds. 2022. História do Brasil em 25 mapas. São Paolo: Companhia das Letras.
Dumasy-Rabineau, Juliette, Camille Serchuk, and Emmanuelle Vagnon, eds. 2022. Pour une histoire des cartes locales à la fin du Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance / Towards a History of Local Maps in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Paris: LePassage.
Eyssette, Jérémie. 2020. Le déroulement des mondes: L’instrumentalisation cartographique du néoconfucianisme en Corée et de la Renaissance en France: XVe-XVIe siècles. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Fleetwood, Lachlan. 2022. Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Freriks, Kester, and Martijn Storms. 2022. Grensverkenningen: Langs oude grenzen in Nederland. Amsterdam: Athenaeum.
Gainot, Bernard, Elie Lescot, and Caroline Seveno. 2021. L’île aux trois noms: Hispaniola, Saint-Domingue et Haïti. Cartes et plans du XVIe au XVIIIe siècles. La Crèche: La Geste.
García Álvarez, Jacobo, and Paloma Puente Lozano, eds. 2022. Beneath the Lines: Borders and Boundary-Making from the 18th to the 20th Century. Cham: SpringerLink.
Gardner, Kyle J. 2021. The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India–China Border, 1846–1962. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gestel-van het Schip, Paula van, ed. 2022. Atlantes amicorum Peter van der Krogt. Leiden: Brill, Hes & De Graaf.
Gibson, Catherine. 2022. Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Goree, Robert. 2020. Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press for the Harvard University Asia Center.
Guleij, Ron, ed. 2022. Het Grote Kaarten Boek: 5 eeuwen cartografie. Amsterdam: Wbooks.
Hamburger, Jeffrey F., David J. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, eds. 2022. The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Heinz, Markus, and Petra Svatek, eds. 2022. 18. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium Wien 2016: Vorträge–Berichte–Poster. Oldenburg: Komregis-Verlag for the Kommission «Geschichte der Kartographie» of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kartographie e.V., the D-A-CH-Arbeitsgruppe für Kartographiegeschichte, the Institüt für Geschichte der Universität Wien, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Hiatt, Alfred, ed. 2021. Cartography Between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100–1500: Divergent Traditions. Leiden: Brill.
Holland, Robert A. 2022. The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography: A Fifty-Year History. Chicago: Newberry Library.
Hughes, Paul. 2022. Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics: Navigation by Greenvill Collins. London: Routledge.
Hyde, Thomas. 2021. Epistola de mensuris et ponderibus Serum seu Sinensium (Oxford, 1688) by Thomas Hyde: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Sinology. Ed. and trans. William Poole. Oxford: by the author.
Johler, Reinhard, and Josef Wolf. 2020. Beschreiben und Vermessen: Raumwissen in der östlichen Habsburgermonarchie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Kann, Oliver. 2020. Karten des Krieges: Deutsche Kartographie und Raumwissen im Ersten Weltkrieg. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag.
Kim, Dorothy, and Adeline Koh, eds. 2021. Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities. n.p.: Punctum Books.
Kuchenbuch, David. 2021. Welt-Bildner: Arno Peters, Richard Buckminster Fuller und die Medien des Globalismus, 1940–2000. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag.
Kupfer, Marcia A., Adam S. Cohen, and J. H. Chajes, eds. 2020. The Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Turnhout: Brepols.
Landsman, Rozemarijn. 2022. Vermeer’s Maps. New York: DelMonico Books for the Frick Collection.
Manasek, Francis J. 2022. A Treatise on Moon Maps: Visual Studies on Paper, 1610–1910. Norwich, Vt.: Antiquaries Manasek. ** available online at http://www.antiquaries.com/.
Mara, Silvio. 2020. Arte e scienza tra Urbino e Milano: pittura, cartografia e ingegneria nell’opera di Giovanni Battista Clarici (1542-1602). Padua: Il poligrafo.
Marey, Étienne-Jules. 2022. The Graphic Method. Ed. and trans. Georges Hattab and R. J. Andrews. San Francisco: Visionary Press. Originally published as La méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales et principalement en physiologie et en médecine (Paris, 1885).
Mauntel, Christoph. 2021. Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Mayar, Mahshid. 2022. Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Meyer, Philipp Julius. 2021. Kartographie und Weltanschauung: Visuelle Wissensproduktion im Verlag Justus Perthes 1890–1945. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.
Mitsein, Rebekah. 2023. African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Monmonier, Mark. 2022. Clock & Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers an Address. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Montgomery, David. 2021. Maps of Trinidad & Tobago: Looking for Caire. Port of Spain: David Montgomery.
Morel, Thomas. 2023. Underground Mathematics: Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Moro, Simonetta. 2022. Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography. New York: Routledge.
Murray, Patrick J. 2023. Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England. Abingdon: Routledge.
Nieto Olarte, Mauricio. 2021. Exploration, Religion and Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-Atlantic World: A New Perspective on the History of Modern Science. Trans. Jimmy Weiskopf. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Nord, David Paul. 2021. Mapping Monroe County, Indiana: An Annotated Bibliography, 1815–1941. Bloomington, Indiana: Monroe County History Center.
Ó Cionnaith, Finnian. 2022. Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
Olberding, Garret Pagenstecher. 2022. Designing Boundaries in Early China: The Composition of Sovereign Space. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
———, ed. 2022. The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China: Shaping the Expanse. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Parker, Philip. 2022. The Atlas of Atlases. London: Ivy Press.
Pérez Fernández, José María, and Edward Wilson-Lee. 2021. Hernando Colón’s New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of Knowledge. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
•• the title is not just metaphorical; the book includes a chapter on maps in Colón’s library.
Piovan, Silvia Elena. 2020. The Geohistorical Approach: Methods and Applications. Cham: Springer.
Polidori, Laurent, ed. 2020. Aimé Laussedat (1819–1907): Le précurseur de la photgrammetrie. Paris: Publi Topex.
Probasco, Nathan J. 2020. Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition: Preparing for a Voyage. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Roland, Meg. 2022. Mirror of the World: Literature, Maps, and Geographic Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. London: Routledge.
Roope, Caroline. 2022. The History of the London Underground Map. Barnsley, South Yorks.: Pen and Sword Transport.
Rossi, Massimo. 2022. Mind the map! Disegnare il mondo dall’XI al XXI secolo; drawing the world from the 11th to the 21st century. Treviso: Fondazione Benetton studi ricerche, Antiga edizioni.
Scharfe, Wolfgang, and Scheerschmidt, eds. 2020. Berlin-Brandenburg im Kartenbild: Wie haben uns die anderen gesehen? Wie haben wir uns selbst gesehen? Berlin: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
Schulten, Susan, ed. 2022. Emma Willard: Maps of History. San Francisco, Calif.: Visionary Press.
Short, John Rennie. 2022. The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century: Power, State and Territory. London: Anthem.
Small, Margaret. 2020. Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press.
Storms, Martijn. 2022. Maps that Made History: 1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo. Originally published as Kaarten die geschiedenis schreven: 1000 jaar wereldgeschiedenis in 100 oude kaarten (Tielt: Lanoo, 2022).
Szuba, Monika, and Julian Wolfreys, eds. 2022. Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern. Leiden: Brill.
Timpener, Evelien. 2022. In Augenschein genommen: Hessische Lokal- und Regionalkartographie in Text und Bild (1500–1575). Munich: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
Vagnon, Emmanuelle, and Sandrine Victor, eds. 2022. La mappa mundi d’Albi: Culture géographique et représentation du monde au haut Moyen Âge. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne.
Van Brummelen, Glen. 2021. The Doctrine of Triangles: A History of Modern Trigonometry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Vincent, James. 2022. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement. London: Faber.
Weber, Joe. 2022. Mapping Historical Las Vegas: A Cartographic Journey. Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press.
Weill, Kelly. 2022. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books.
Welfare, Humphrey. 2022. General William Roy, 1726–1790: Father of the Ordnance Survey. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Withers, Charles W. J. 2023. Majestic River: Mungo Park and the Exploration of the Niger. Edinburgh: Birlinn.
Zandvliet, Kees. 2023. De wereld van de familie Blaeu. Zutphen: Walburg Pers.
Zuidervaart, Huib, and Oscar Matsuura. 2022. Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World: The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610–1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. 2 vols.: Life, Work and Legacy; Transcription and English Translation of His Astronomical Observations. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
