Comparative Map History and "the History of Cartography" : Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations /

Comparative Map History and "the History of Cartography" : Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations /

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 18...

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Main Author: Edney, Matthew H. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences ; .
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Book History and Cartography.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.