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Comparative Map History and âthe History of Cartographyâ
Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations
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The apparently centuries-old field of âthe history of cartographyâ 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 âthe history of cartography.â
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).
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
âIntroduction
â1âWriting the History of Map History
â2âMethodologies and Threads of Comparative Map History
â3âComparative Map Historians: Map Librarians, Antiquarians, and Academics
â4âInventing the Deficient Discipline of âthe History of Cartographyâ
â5âFixing the Conceptual Deficiencies of the History of Cartography
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
âIntroduction
â1âWriting the History of Map History
â2âMethodologies and Threads of Comparative Map History
â3âComparative Map Historians: Map Librarians, Antiquarians, and Academics
â4âInventing the Deficient Discipline of âthe History of Cartographyâ
â5âFixing the Conceptual Deficiencies of the History of Cartography
Bibliography
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of maps, including historians of art, literature, the book and libraries, science and technology, and collecting, as well as cultural and social historians.