- Find Information
- Research Guides
- Maps and Nations
Maps and Nations
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.
-
The History of Cartography by J. B. Harley and David Woodward
Call Number: GA201. H53 1987
-
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
Click on a title to check availability.
-
How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier
Call Number: G108.7 .M66 1991 -
The Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford
Call Number: GA105.3 .W49 2001 -
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography by Martin W. Lewis and Kären Wigen
Call Number: G71.5 .L48 1997 -
A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry Brotton
Call Number: G1030 .B7 2014 -
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations by Vincent Virga
Call Number: Call Number: GA203 .V57 2007 -
To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps that Changed the World by Jeremy Harwood
Call Number: GA201 .H38 2006 -
-
Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine by Tom Koch
Call Number: RA792.5 .K63 2005 -
Maps and Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier by Hugh Brody
Call Number: E99 .T77 B76 1998 -
The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950 by Susan Schulten
Call Number: G96 .S36 2001 -
You Are Here: From the Compass to the GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves by Hiawatha Bray
Call Number: G70.212 .B735 2014 -
The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory by Anna Green; Kathleen Troup
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
Click on a title to check availability.
-
The Art of the Map: An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments by Dennis Reinhartz
Call Number: GA108.7 .R45 2012 -
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer
Call Number: GA781 .V36 2014
The Power of Maps
Click on a title to check availability.
-
No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control by Mark S. Monmonier
Call Number: GA108.7 .M664 2010 -
The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography Throughout History by Christian Jacob and Edward H. Dahl
Call Number: GA201 .J3313 2006
Mapping North America
Click on a title to check availability.
-
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.
-
The Cartography of North America, 1500-1800 by Pierluigi Portinaro
Call Number: GA401 .P67 1987 -
The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 by Martin Brückner
Call Number: GA105.3 .B77 2017