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Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge

6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2016

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Mirela Altić

    1. Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

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  2. Imre Josef Demhardt

    1. Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA

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  3. Soetkin Vervust

    1. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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  • Presents previously unavailable information on the dissemination of cartographic knowledge from the 18th to the 20th century, including previously unpublished maps
  • Reports on the results of new research projects pursued by internationally respected experts on the history of cartography at tertiary institutions around the globe
  • Offers a multidisciplinary approach

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  4. Map Production and Dissemination of Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. ‘Back to the Drawing Board’: Map-Making and the Royal Geographical Society (1830–1990)

      • Francis Herbert
      Pages 147-172

    3. Directory Maps: A Neglected Cartographic Resource

      • John Moore
      Pages 173-192

    4. Revising, Rectifying and Regulating the Danube: Cartographic Reconstructions of the River and the History of Maps of South-Eastern Europe in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century

      • Zsolt Győző Török
      Pages 193-209

    5. The Fortune of the Cartographer Ptolemy Preserved in the Libraries of Rome

      • Cosimo Palagiano, Lamberto Lesti
      Pages 211-234

    6. Colonialism in the Bosatlas

      • Ferjan Ormeling
      Pages 235-255

    7. The Dutch Commemorative Toponyms in the Seventeenth Century East Asia, Based on the Cartographic Works Left by the Dutch East India Company (VOC)

      • Peter Kang
      Pages 257-267

    8. On the ‘De-measuring’ of Time and Space in the Models of the World of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

      • Andreas Christoph
      Pages 269-280

    9. Obliterating Historical Complexity as Academic Practice: Historiographical Maps of 7th c. BCE Egypt

      • Melanie Wasmuth
      Pages 281-298
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About this book

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13–15 October 2016. The overall conference theme was ‘The Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: Production – Trade – Consumption – Preservation’. The book presents original research by internationally respected authors in the field of historical cartography, offering a significant contribution to the development of this field of study, but also of geography, history and the GIS sciences. The primary target audience includes researchers, educators, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.

Reviews

“The volume contains not only a broad tapestry of case studies, but also suggestions for future research and pointers to newly available or soon-to-be-available technological possibilities, there is surely something here for all. Historians from other fields, such as military history, cultural history, and the history of science and technology will likewise read this volume with great interest and profit from the change of perspective afforded by its cross-disciplinary content.” (Lena Moser, Imago Mundi, Vol. 70 (2), May, 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

    Mirela Altić

  • Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA

    Imre Josef Demhardt

  • Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Soetkin Vervust

About the editors

Mirela Altić is a chief research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia. At the University of Zagreb’s Department of History, Dr. Altić serves as a full professor and lectures on the history of cartography and historical geography. Besides her specialization in South Eastern and Central European map history, over the last few years she has also published extensively on the Jesuit cartography of the Americas and conducted research in European and American archives and libraries. She is the author of twelve books, numerous scholarly papers and a contributor to The History of Cartography encyclopedia project. Since 2015 she has also served as Vice-Chair of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography.

Imre Josef Demhardt’s research interests include post-enlightenment cartography, colonialism and regional studies with a focus on Central Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and North America. Besides numerous articles and several books on these subjects, he is involved as co-editor of Vol. 5 (Nineteenth Century) in the encyclopedia project on the History of Cartography. He holds the Garrett Chair in the History of Cartography at the University of Texas at Arlington and currently serves as Chair of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography.

Soetkin Vervust is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and Newcastle University (UK). Her research interests lie in 18th and 19th century military cartography, the use of digital techniques for the study of historical maps, and their applicability to historical geography and landscape archaeology. Since 2015 she has served as Executive Secretary of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography.

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