History of Cartography Project

FAIN: PW-264133-19

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53715-1218)
Matthew H. Edney (Project Director: July 2018 to present)

Continued development of the multi-volume reference work, The History of Cartography, leading to publication of Volume Four on the European Enlightenment, 1650-1800, and completion of research, editing, fact-checking, and procurement of illustrations for Volume Five on The Nineteenth Century.

We request an implementation grant for July 2019–June 2021 to advance the final volume of a major reference series, The History of Cartography, and to finalize its penultimate volume. Work planned includes research and extensive preparation of Vol. 5 (for press submission August 2021) and outreach to scholars and the public with Vol. 4’s publication in late 2019. This award-winning series is the only comprehensive and reliable resource to study the people, cultures, and societies that have produced and used maps from prehistory to the present. It provides intellectual access to the complex world of maps for scholars and the public. It promotes and sustains the humanistic interpretation of maps as evidentiary sources. Experienced editors, contributors, and staff thoroughly research and rigorously check its content. The Press is responsible for publishing and distributing the volumes, making them available to a broad audience in print, e-book, and eventually free online editions.

Associated Products

Cartography in the European Enlightenment (Book)
Title: Cartography in the European Enlightenment
Editor: Pedley, Mary Sponberg
Editor: Edney, Matthew H.
Abstract: A comprehensive study of mapping in Europe (and Russia and the Ottoman Empire) between approximately 1650 and 1800, containing 481 entries by 209 contributors from 22 countries in addition to the USA, with 958 full-color illustrations. Its entries vary from broad, interpretive treatments of large themes to precise, factual accounts of people and things. The volume was designed around a series of conceptual clusters: Historiographic Context (how scholars have studied mapping in the European Enlightenment); Representational Contexts (the modes of mapping, in terms of both Surveying and Observation [property, boundary, topographical, and urban] and Conceptualization and Visualization [geographical, celestial, thematic, marine]); Methodological Contexts (the broad contexts of Art and Craft and of Science, incl. the mode of geodetic surveying); Political Contexts (the broad contexts of the emergent Public Sphere [Map Trade, Map Collecting] and of government and administration [Administrative and Military cartographies]); Individuals, Institutions, and Artifacts (people and things that have broad relevance to more than one mode or context); and Regional Contexts.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo4149971.html
Primary URL Description: University of Chicago Press website
Secondary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/cartography-in-the-european-enlightenment/oclc/1156471276
Secondary URL Description: Catalog record in WorldCat
Access Model: print, e-book
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780226184753
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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