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Resources for research on the history of maps and mapping.
The History of Cartography
The History of Cartography, an award-winning series of volumes about the history of maps and mapping, is available online and in print. When completed there will be a total of six volumes. Currently, volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 have been published.
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The History of Cartography
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Call Number: GA201. H53 1987
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The History of Cartography ProjectThe History of Cartography Project is a research, editorial, and publishing venture drawing international attention to the history of maps and mapping. The Project's major work is the multi-volume History of Cartography series. Its inter-disciplinary approach brings together scholars in the arts, sciences, and humanities.
Selected Books
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How to Lie with Maps
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Call Number: G108.7 .M66 1991 -
The Mapmakers
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Call Number: GA105.3 .W49 2001 -
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography
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Call Number: G71.5 .L48 1997 -
A History of the World in 12 Maps
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Call Number: G1030 .B7 2014 -
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
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Call Number: Call Number: GA203 .V57 2007 -
To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps that Changed the World
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Call Number: GA201 .H38 2006 -
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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine
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Call Number: RA792.5 .K63 2005 -
Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier
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Call Number: E99 .T77 B76 1998 -
The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
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Call Number: G96 .S36 2001 -
You Are Here: From the Compass to the GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves
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Call Number: G70.212 .B735 2014 -
The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory
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Call Number: D13.2 .H64 2016The Houses of History provides a comprehensive introduction to the twelve schools of thought which have had the greatest influence on the study of history in the twentieth century, ranging from Empiricism to Postcolonialism, Marxism to the Ethnohistorians.
Monstrous Map Embellishments
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The Art of the Map: An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments
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Call Number: GA108.7 .R45 2012 -
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
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Call Number: GA781 .V36 2014 -
The Golden Age of Maritime Maps: When Europe Discovered the World
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Call Number: GA781 .V36 2014
The Power of Maps
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No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
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Call Number: GA108.7 .M664 2010 -
The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography Throughout History
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Call Number: GA201 .J3313 2006
Mapping North America
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Mapping the Nation: A Companion Site to the book by Susan SchultenThe site traces the rise of new forms of mapping and graphic knowledge in nineteenth-century American life. Zoom in to the online maps provided.
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The Cartography of North America, 1500-1800
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Call Number: GA401 .P67 1987 -
The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860
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Call Number: GA105.3 .B77 2017
