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Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”
Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations
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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.”
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
Introduction
1 Writing the History of Map History
2 Methodologies and Threads of Comparative Map History
3 Comparative Map Historians: Map Librarians, Antiquarians, and Academics
4 Inventing the Deficient Discipline of “the History of Cartography”
5 Fixing the Conceptual Deficiencies of the History of Cartography
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Writing the History of Map History
2 Methodologies and Threads of Comparative Map History
3 Comparative Map Historians: Map Librarians, Antiquarians, and Academics
4 Inventing the Deficient Discipline of “the History of Cartography”
5 Fixing 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.