{"product_id":"cartography-matthew-h-edney-9780226605685","title":"Cartography: The Ideal and Its History","description":"Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what \"cartography\" has come to mean and include. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this book Edney disavows the term \u003ci\u003ecartography\u003c\/i\u003e, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps--sea charts versus thematic maps, for example--in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew H. Edney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022660568X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226605685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Matthew H. Edney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46140673392895,"sku":"9780226605685","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ebe96e5-2f0a-48f5-8af8-bf0583c07bd1.jpg?v=1726596706","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cartography-matthew-h-edney-9780226605685","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}