Mapping as Process
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Mapping as Process

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    • About Me
    • Brief CV
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    • Comparative Map History
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
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Mapping as Process

A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process

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    • About Me
    • Brief CV
  • My Books/
    • Comparative Map History
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
  • Bibliographies/
    • Classified (with download links)
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December 07, 2025

Media appearance on NPR, no less

December 07, 2025/ Matthew Edney
Media appearance on NPR, no less

A 6m30s story on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday, 7 December 2025, in the Osher Map Library, its wonderful staff, and its great work and vision!

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December 07, 2025/ Matthew Edney/
November 22, 2025

2025 Books in Map History, plus some missed from 2023/4

November 22, 2025/ Matthew Edney
2025 Books in Map History, plus some missed from 2023/4

Time for the annual list of the books I know (I think I know) were published in 2025 about map history! (Blog roll image is courtesy of Tom Gould!)

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November 22, 2025/ Matthew Edney/
October 13, 2025

The Most Important—and Amazing—Map Exhibition, Ever!

October 13, 2025/ Matthew Edney
The Most Important—and Amazing—Map Exhibition, Ever!

Marking the Turn to the Anthropogenic Map Concept

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October 13, 2025/ Matthew Edney/
August 30, 2025

Media mentions ...

August 30, 2025/ Matthew Edney
Media mentions ...

Especially a video essay using a bit of my work to good effect!

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August 30, 2025/ Matthew Edney/
August 27, 2025

The Modifiability of US Commercial Lithographic Maps

August 27, 2025/ Matthew Edney
The Modifiability of US Commercial Lithographic Maps

An ornate 1860 map of the United States and Mexico repurposes an older 1849 map to new political ends1

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August 27, 2025/ Matthew Edney/
July 17, 2025

Spicing up the World Map!

July 17, 2025/ Matthew Edney
Spicing up the World Map!

Revealing comparison of two promotional maps made in 1931 and 1957 by the same company!

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July 17, 2025/ Matthew Edney/
July 17, 2025

Public Radio interview re History of Cartography

July 17, 2025/ Matthew Edney
Public Radio interview re History of Cartography

Fairly wide ranging chat on Wisconsin Public Radio about how mapping has changed with digital technologies and on the History of Cartography series!

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July 17, 2025/ Matthew Edney/
July 11, 2025

"Comparative Map History" is published!

July 11, 2025/ Matthew Edney
"Comparative Map History" is published!

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography” is now officially published by Brill

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July 11, 2025/ Matthew Edney/
June 26, 2025

Mapping the Social World of the Counterculture

June 26, 2025/ Matthew Edney
Mapping the Social World of the Counterculture

The Great Humbead’s “Revised Map of the World” (1968)

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June 26, 2025/ Matthew Edney/
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Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process is a space for me to explore a new approach to understanding mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.

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The books …

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations in Brill Research Perspectives on Map History. Available from Brill in print and as an ebook ($87).

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Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, edited by myself and Mary Pedley. Available from the University of Chicago Press, in print and ebook ($500).

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Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

Available from my bibliography

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Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.

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