Article ID: CBB676246417

Map Making, Defamation and Credibility: the Case of the Athenaeum, Charles Tilstone Beke, and W. & A. K. Johnston’s Edinburgh Educational Atlas (1874) (2021)

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This article examines an 1874 court case brought by the leading map-making firm W. & A. K. Johnston against the Athenaeum, a literary periodical, for publishing a review that criticized the quality of Johnston’s Edinburgh Educational Atlas. The review, by geographer Charles Tilstone Beke, impugned the reputations of mapmaker Alexander Keith Johnston and of the Johnston firm, questioning their credibility. Testimonials given at the trial reveal the complex circumstances behind the atlas and highlight the importance of credibility in atlas publishing at this time, as well as to Johnston and his reputation and to Beke as a reviewer and expert on the ‘Nile question’ and the geography of East Africa’s lakes.

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Authors & Contributors
DeShong, Rachel
M. Zuhair Nashed
Adelusi-Adeluyi, Ademide
Henniges, Norman
Altić, Mirela
Benjamin Newman
Concepts
Geography
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Periodicals; serials
Surveys
Linguistics; philology
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
Places
United States
North America
Germany
France
Lagos, Nigeria
England
Institutions
Geographical Society of Vienna
Royal Geographical Society
American Philosophical Society
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