Playing with Maps

Cartographic Games in Western Culture

Adrian Seville, Thierry Depaulis, Geert H. Bekkering

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English

Brill
02 August 2023

Historical maps & atlases

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Map History

This is the first serious book wholly devoted to games based on maps. The authors are experts in their respective fields: board games, playing cards and dissected puzzles. They bring an informed historical approach to the development and diffusion of these games up to about the beginning of the twentieth century, including games from Western Europe and America in all their intriguing variety. This book is an essential reference source for those wishing to research this neglected area, while those new to the field will be pleasantly surprised at the interesting and unusual maps that these games exploit.

By: Adrian Seville, Thierry Depaulis, Geert H. Bekkering
Imprint: Brill
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9789004544062
ISBN 10: 9004544062
Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Map History
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 02 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adrian Seville, Ph.D. (1972), University of Edinburgh, is an Emeritus Professor of City, University of London. His publications on the history of printed board games include The Cultural Legacy of the Royal Game of the Goose (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). Thierry Depaulis is an independent historian specializing in the history of mind games (card, board, dice and table games). He is the author of many publications – journal articles, books, exhibition catalogues, etc., mainly in French and English, on card games, tarot, playing cards, and board games. Geert Bekkering, Drs. Biology (1974), University of Utrecht, is a retired teacher. His publications on the history of jigsaw puzzles in the Netherlands (1988) and Germany (2004) accompanied major exhibitions.

Reviews for Playing with Maps: Cartographic Games in Western Culture

“[…] the games brushed aside as ‘cartographical curiosities’, or overlooked in formal studies of the history of education as simply toys, they are here, for the first time, placed firmly in the central context of humanist and enlightenment thought on the acquisition of learning.” ----Laurence Worms, in: Journal of the International Map Collections’ Society (2023) No. 175: pp. 54-55 “The authors’ research extends into the early eighteenth century. […] They also provide a great deal of information on editions, versions, origins and current location/collection of these cartographic artefacts.” ----Nicola Boothby, in: Maps in History January 2024, No. 78: pp.5-7