Full Description
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 1800s to offer an innovative account of the practices and institutions of comparative map history in support of Western imperialism and nationalism, and of how the field was reconfigured as the core of a newly idealized discipline of "the history of cartography."
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
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