Comparative Map History and "The History of Cartography": Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations - Paperback

by Matthew H. Edney (Author)

An innovative account of the practices and institutions of comparative map history in support of Western imperialism and nationalism and of how, after 1950, the field became the core of idealized discipline of "the history of cartography."

Author Biography

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).