Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”

Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations

AvMatthew H. Edney

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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The apparently centuries-old field of “the history of cartography” was invented after 1950 through incomplete historiographies by leading map historians. This monograph uses an empirically grounded analysis of the ways in which early maps have been systematically studied since the early 1800s to offer an innovative account of the practices and institutions of comparative map history in support of Western imperialism and nationalism, and of how the field was reconfigured as the core of a newly idealized discipline of “the history of cartography.”

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 7 mm
Vikt:293 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill Research Perspectives in Map History
Antal sidor:142
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004742680

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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).

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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