H-65. Material Foundations of Map History, 1450–1900 - Advance Reading List

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  • Required Reading

    *Brückner is online; other readings are in the RBS Google Drive folder for H-65.

    Brückner, Martin. 2008. “The Material Map: Lewis Evans and Cartographic Consumer Culture, 1750–1775.” Common-Place 8, no. 3. https://commonplace.online/article/the-material-map/

    Dym, Jordana, and Carla Lois. 2021. “Bound Images: Maps, Books, and Reading in Material and Digital Contexts.” Word & Image 37, no. 2: 119–41.

    Edney, Matthew H. 2024. “Processual Map History.” In The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities, ed. Tania Rossetto, and Laura Lo Presti, 38–46. London: Routledge.

    Edney, Matthew H. 2025. A Pageant of Spectacles: Chromolithography in America. An Exhibition at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, 30 November 2023–29 June 2024. Portland: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. [preprint]

    Krogt, Peter van der. 1996. “Amsterdam Atlas Production in the 1630s: A Bibliographer’s Nightmare.” Imago Mundi 48: 149–60.

  • Recommended Reading

    Akerman, James R., and Robert W. Karrow, eds. 2007. Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Edney, Matthew H. 2019. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Harley, J. B., David Woodward, G. Malcolm Lewis, Mark Monmonier, Matthew H. Edney, Mary S. Pedley, and Roger J. P. Kain, eds. 1987–2027. The History of Cartography. 6 vols. in 12 bks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. • free, online access at www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/ (currently vols. 1–3, 6)

  • Atlases

    {Tolias, 2022, #98667} {Koyoumjian, 2020, #36562} {Crowley, 2016, #12145} {Van Duzer, 2015, #12462} {Krogt, 2009, #8499} {Worms, 2002, #7169}