Matthew H. Edney, Ph.D. (1990), Osher Professor in the History of Cartography (University of Southern Maine), directs the History of Cartography Project (Wisconsin). Recent books are Cartography: The Ideal and Its History and Cartography in the European Enlightenment (edited with Mary Pedley).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Writing the History of Map History2 Methodologies and Threads of Comparative Map History3 Comparative Map Historians: Map Librarians, Antiquarians, and Academics4 Inventing the Deficient Discipline of “the History of Cartography”5 Fixing the Conceptual Deficiencies of the History of CartographyBibliography