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portada Cartography: The Ideal and its History
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
296
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780226605685
Edition No.
1
Categories

Cartography: The Ideal and its History

Matthew H. Edney (Author) · University Of Chicago Press · Paperback

Cartography: The Ideal and its History - Matthew H. Edney

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Synopsis "Cartography: The Ideal and its History "

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 “cartography” 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 maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—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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