Cartography

The Ideal and Its History

By: Matthew H Edney

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Paperback | 12 April 2019 | Edition Number 1

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Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what âcartographyâ has come to mean and include.

In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of mapsâ"sea charts versus thematic maps, for exampleâ"in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.

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"In light of the numerous attacks on cartography, Edney's Cartography: The Ideal and Its History may perhaps be the nail in the coffin of cartography as we now know it. . . .Simply put, all those interested in the future of the map, of map studies, and cartography should purchase a copy of this book, read it intently and with an open mind, and take its ideas seriously."-- "Cartographic Perspectives"
"Edney commands a breathtaking view of the history of map making. From his years of spadework in archives and classrooms to his perch at the helm of the massive History of Cartography project, he has gradually come to see fundamental problems in the very categories through which the cartographic enterprise is conventionally understood. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History offers both a sharp critique of current practice and a call to reorient the field of map studies. A landmark contribution."-- "K?ren Wigen, coeditor of Cartographic Japan"
"Edney's Cartography provides a corrective, a reimagined intellectual framework for maps and mapping that will, when engaged and operationalized, greatly broaden our understanding of the wondrous array of inscriptions and practices we call maps and mapping."-- "Isis"

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