History of Cartography
Cartography by
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.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780226605685Publication Date: 2019-04-12
Multimedia Cartography by
Presents three main research fields in which multimedia cartography and the study of the effectiveness of multimedia maps are currently taking place. In each of these fields, the editors describe how published research is embedded in the broader context of map design and user studies.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9783036536804Publication Date: 2022
New Directions in Radical Cartography by
This collection explores the meaning of maps and of map-making in the modern world.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781538147191Publication Date: 2021
Shifts in Mapping by
Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change the conception of a geopolitical space?
Call Number: eBookISBN: 3837660419Publication Date: 2021
Historic Maps
- American PanoramaAmerican Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps.
- Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United StatesHere you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps.
- CaribMapCaribmap is a mobile-friendly resource for exploring historical map images of Caribbean islands. The site has evolved since 1999 and now presents images of approximately 1800 maps of the islands printed over five centuries (16th–20th).
- David Rumsey Map CollectionThe David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.
- Library of Congress Map CollectionThe Library's cartographic holdings have grown to more than 5 million map sheets,105,000 atlases, 138,000 microfilm and microfiche items, 5,500 globes, 2,000 terrain models, 1.6 million aerial photographs and remote sensing images, and thousands of digital files.
- Map History/History of CartographyUse this site to find the worthwhile free information about old maps, both on the web and in the real world. The site's 120 'pages' offer comment and guidance, and over 6,500 annotated links selected for relevance and quality.
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center (BPL)The Leventhal Map & Education Center cares for more than a quarter million cartographic and geographic objects, including maps, atlases, charts, globes, gazetteers, ephemera, research texts, and data sets.
- Old Maps OnlineOldMapsOnline.org indexes over 400.000 maps.