Edney, Matthew H. (Author)
The University of Chicago Press
Physical Details: 309
Language: English
Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
...MoreReview Elizabeth Horodowich (2021) Review of "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History". American Historical Review (pp. 263-264).
Review Judith A. Tyner (2020) Review of "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 587-587).
Review Jeremy W. Crampton (2020) Review of "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 71-72).
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