Comparative Map History and "the History of Cartography"

Matthew H. Edney

ISBN 10: 9004742689 / ISBN 13: 9789004742680

Published by Brill, NL, 2025

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Comparative Map History and "the History of Cartography"
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004742689
• ISBN 13: 9789004742680
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.5W x 0.7H x 23.5D centimeters 15.5 centimeters width by 0.7 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 293 grams

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Synopsis

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.”

About the Author

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).