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