Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Edney Matthew H.
Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Edney Matthew H. Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship…
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Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Edney Matthew H.
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. 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. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H.
To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal 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.