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The History of Cartography, Volume 4

Cartography in the European Enlightenment

Matthew H Edney Mary Sponberg Pedley

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English
University of Chicago Press
18 May 2020
Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800.

 

The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.

 

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Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 216mm, 
ISBN:   9780226184753
ISBN 10:   0226184757
Series:   History of Cartography
Pages:   1920
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Matthew H. Edney is Osher Professor in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Cartography: The Ideal and Its History and Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. Mary Sponberg Pedley is assistant curator of maps at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England, also published by Chicago, and Bel et Utile: The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers.

Reviews for The History of Cartography, Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment

It is brilliant, continuing the already very high standards of what is the most significant series in cartographic history ever published. . . . A must for anyone interested in maps or the Enlightenment, and a work that whets the appetite for the next volume due out, that on the nineteenth century. -- The Critic (UK) The value of The History of Cartography to those interested in maps has long been a given, and one further affirmed by the project's scale, which is unlikely to be matched. The importance of an understanding of maps to broader intellectual, cultural, and political currents emerges clearly, as does the very delight of maps. Indeed, as an aesthetic product, the two parts, each substantial volumes themselves, of this one 'volume, ' with the total weight almost sixteen pounds, are a triumph. -- The New Criterion


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