Comparative Map History and “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).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Writing the History of Map History2 Methodologies and Threads of Comparative Map History3 Comparative Map Historians: Map Librarians, Antiquarians, and Academics4 Inventing the Deficient Discipline of “the History of Cartography”5 Fixing the Conceptual Deficiencies of the History of CartographyBibliography