Overview
- Presents the findings of original research by internationally recognized authors in historical cartography based at leading academic institutions worldwide
- Offers unique insights into the nexus between mapping and empires, with a particular focus on the nineteenth century
- Provides unparalleled scope in examining the development of cartography as an imperial and colonial project
- Shows that the critical focus of the ‘mapping empires’ theme bears exceptional inter- and multi-disciplinary relevance
- Includes previously unpublished maps
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)
Part of the book sub series: Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) (ICA)
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Table of contents (17 papers)
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The Far East
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Mapping Boundaries
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Toponyms
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About this book
This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The overall conference theme was ‘Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea’. The book presents a breadth of original research undertaken by internationally recognized authors in the field of historical cartography and offers a significant contribution to the development of this growing field and to many interdisciplinary aspects of geography, history and the geographic information sciences. It is intended for researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Soetkin Vervust is a postdoctoral research fellow at the VUB – Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and Newcastle University (UK). Her research interests lie in eighteenth and nineteenth century military cartography, the use of digital techniques for the study of old maps, and their applicability to historical geography and landscape archaeology. She has served as Executive Secretary of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography since 2015.
Imre Josef Demhardt is interested in post-enlightenment cartography, colonialism and regional studies, with a focus on Central Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and North America. In addition to having published numerous articles and several books on these subjects, he is involved as co-editor of Vol. 5 (Nineteenth Century) in the encyclopedic 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.
Nick Millea has been Map Librarian at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, since 1992. He served as Bibliographer for Imago Mundi (2005–10 and 2012–15) and is a founding member and co-convenor of The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA). Most recently, he has co-curated the Talking Maps exhibit at the Bodleian Library and has written the exhibit’s complementary books: Talking Maps and Fifty Maps and the Stories They Tell.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea
Book Subtitle: 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2018
Editors: Alexander James Kent, Soetkin Vervust, Imre Josef Demhardt, Nick Millea
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23447-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23446-1Published: 27 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23449-2Published: 27 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23447-8Published: 26 August 2019
Series ISSN: 1863-2246
Series E-ISSN: 1863-2351
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 321
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Historical Geography, Imperialism and Colonialism