Matthew H. Edney
American geographer and professor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Matthew H. Edney is a British geographer who is both the Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, at the University of Southern Maine; and the Project Director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Edney maintains a blog, Mapping as Process, where he discusses the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption.
Matthew H. Edney's Published Works
Published Works
- Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 (1997) (234)
- Cartography without ‘Progress’: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking (1993) (149)
- Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe (1993) (51)
- Theory and the history of cartography (1996) (45)
- The Origins and Development of J.B. Harley's Cartographic Theories (2005) (44)
- Reconsidering Enlightenment Geography and Map-Making: Reconnaissance, Maping, Archive (1999) (41)
- The Patronage of Science and the Creation of Imperial Space: The British Mapping of India, 1799-1843 (1993) (32)
- The Irony of Imperial mapping (2009) (31)
- Putting “Cartography” into the History of Cartography: Arthur H. Robinson, David Woodward, and the Creation of a Discipline (2005) (30)
- Cartography: The Ideal and Its History (2019) (27)
- Mathematical cosmography and the social ideology of British cartography, 1780–1820 (1994) (26)
- British military education, mapmaking, and military 'map-mindedness' in the later Enlightenment (1994) (26)
- Cartography (2019) (26)
- Recent Trends in the History of Cartography: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography to the English-Language Literature (2007) (17)
- Academic Cartography, Internal Map History, and the Critical Study of Mapping Processes (2014) (16)
- There's a Map For That (2012) (12)
- Cartography and Its Discontents (2015) (12)
- Cartographic culture and nationalism in the early United States: Benjamin Vaughan and the choice for a prime meridian, 1811 (1994) (11)
- Mapping and empire : British trigonometrical surveys in India and the European concept of systematic survey, 1799-1843 (1990) (11)
- Mapping Empires, Mapping Bodies: reflections on the Use and Abuse of Cartography (2007) (9)
- Telling the Traumatic Truth: William Hubbard's Narrative of King Philip's War and his "Map of New England" (2004) (9)
- The Origins and Development of J. B. Harley’s Cartographic Theories. Cartographica Monograph 54 (2005) (8)
- John Mitchell's Map of North America (1755): A Study of the Use and Publication of Official Maps in Eighteenth‐Century Britain (2008) (8)
- J.B. Harley (1932-1991): Questioning Maps, Questioning Cartography, Questioning Cartographers (1992) (8)
- The Atlas Of India 1823-1947/The Natural History Of A Topographic Map Series (1991) (7)
- A Content Analysis of Imago Mundi, 1935–2010 (2014) (7)
- Politics, Science, and Government Mapping Policy in the United States, 1800–1925 (1986) (7)
- Cartography’s “Scientific Reformation” and the Study of Topographical Mapping in the Modern Era (2012) (6)
- Mapping Parts of the World (2007) (6)
- Brining India to Hand: Mapping an Empire, Denying Space (2003) (5)
- A Cautionary Historiography of John Smith's New England (2011) (4)
- The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (2000) (4)
- Knowledge and Cartography in the Early Atlantic (2011) (3)
- Simon de Passe's cartographic portrait of Captain John Smith and a new England (1616/7) (2010) (3)
- The Anglophone Toponyms Associated with John Smith's Description and Map of New England (2009) (3)
- Plus ça change: Defining Academic Cartography for the Twenty-First Century (2012) (3)
- Map history : Discourse and process (2017) (3)
- Reflection Essay: Progress and the Nature of ‘Cartography’ (2011) (3)
- Writing Cartography’s Enlightenment (2020) (2)
- 1.10. Cartography without ‘Progress’: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking (2011) (2)
- New England Mapped: The Creation of a Colonial territory (2003) (2)
- TEORIA E HISTÓRIA DA CARTOGRAFIA (2016) (1)
- Competition over Land, Competition over Empire: Public Discourse and Printed Maps of the Kennebec River, 1753–1755 (2011) (1)
- Plantation Acres: an Historical Study of the Irish Land Surveyor and his Maps, J.H. Andrews. Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast (1985), xxiv, + 462. £16.50 (1987) (1)
- Creating “Discovery”: The Myth of Columbus, 1777–1828 (2020) (1)
- A Publishing History of John Mitchell’s Map of North America, 1755-1775 (2007) (1)
- The rise of systematic, territorial surveys (2017) (1)
- David Alfred Woodward (1942–2004) (2005) (1)
- Mapping And The Early Modern State: The Intellectual Nexus Of Late Tudor And Early Stuart Cartography/Review Article (1992) (1)
- Making Explicit the Implicit, Idealized Understanding of “Map” and “Cartography” (2022) (0)
- Book reviews (2006) (0)
- Atlas of Columbus and The Great Discoveries.@@@Maps and the Columbian Encounter: An Interpretive Guide to the Travelling Exhibition. (1992) (0)
- Authors of articles in this volume (2000) (0)
- Cartography in France, 1660–1848: Science, Engineering, and Statecraft, Josef Konvitz. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1987), xx, +194. $39.95 (1988) (0)
- Oral History Interview: Matthew Edney (1515) (2016) (0)
- A Portolan Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea and Western European Waters (with a World Map) Attributed to Juan Oliva: Facsimile Edition with an Introduction by John A. Wolter. Library of Congress, Washington, DC (1987), 24 (1989) (0)
- Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line. By Avraham Ariel and Nora Ariel Berger. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006. Pp. xii, 236. $49.95.) (2010) (0)
- Maps in Those Days: Cartographic Methods before 1850, by J.H. Andrews (2011) (0)
- History of Cartography (2013) (0)
- David Woodward, An Appreciation (2005) (0)
- American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, Walter W. Ristow. Wayne State University Press, Detroit (1985), 488, $60.00 (1987) (0)
- THE MAPPING OF NEW ENGLAND (2009) (0)
- Obituary (1985) (0)
- Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures: The Nebenzahl Lectures, the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center, and the Study of Map History (2021) (0)
- Monograph 54 (2005) (0)
- Mapping, survey, and science (2017) (0)
- Norman Joseph William Thrower (23 October 1919–2 September 2020) (2021) (0)
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