Edited by James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow Jr.
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
"A meaty work that sweeps back and forth across the centuries and millenniums, spans the continents and ranges from the micro-details of a 19th Century London neighborhood to an ancient Aztec rendering of the cosmos."—Pat Reardon, Chicago Tribune
See a collection of unusual maps from the book.
Mark Monmonier
Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
"Coastlines take on a completely different meaning after reading Mark Monmonier’s five-century-long odyssey on the challenges and tricks that mapmakers have used to tell us where land and sea meet. That line is far from obvious, it turns out. With the prospect of rising global sea levels, the technique of mapping changing bays, estuaries, and deltas requires imagination as much as mathematics."—Christopher Hallowell, author of Holding Back the Sea
Denis Wood and John Fels
The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World
Cartographers have known for decades that maps are far from objective representations of the world; rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. Yet that understanding has had almost no effect on the way maps are viewed and used by the general public. In The Natures of Maps, cartographers Denis Wood and John Fels present a compelling exploration of a wide range of maps to answer the question of, as they put it, why maps have "gotten away with it."
David Woodward
The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance
"A major scholarly publishing achievement.… We will learn much not only about maps, but about how and why and with what consequences civilizations have apprehended, expanded, and utilized the potential of maps."—Josef W. Konvitz, Isis
Edited by James R. Akerman
Cartographies of Travel and Navigation
"A tour de force in geographic, cartographic, and transportation history, this compendium ranges from sea charts to in-car navigation systems. As extensive human mobility is often attributed to contemporary modernity, this collection of essays relates, in part, how and why it came to be so."—Thomas J. Schlereth, University of Notre Dame
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Cartography and geography
from the University of Chicago Press
The books in this subject catalog are not all the books published by the University of Chicago Press in this field, but only our most recent and important books. We recommend you start with this catalog. For a more extensive listing you may go to the subject index of our complete catalog, or you may search our title database using a subject term. To see just our very latest books (titles released in the last six months) go to our new releases pages.
Cartography
- Akerman, James R.: Cartographies of Travel and Navigation
- Akerman, James R.: The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire
- Akerman, James R.: Maps: Finding Our Place in the World • See a collection of unusual maps from the book.
- Black, Jeremy: Maps and Politics
- Buisseret, David: Envisioning the City: Six Studies in Urban Cartography
- Edney, Matthew H.: Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843
- Goffart, Walter: Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870
- Harley, J. B.: The History of Cartography, Volume 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
- Harley, J. B.: The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
- Harley, J. B.: The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies
- Hewsen, Robert H.: Armenia: A Historical Atlas • See our web feature.
- Hiatt, Alfred: Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
- Hostetler, Laura: Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China
- Hubbard, Bill: American Boundaries: The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey
- Jacob, Christian: The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History
- Lemmon, Alfred E.: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps • See nine maps from the book.
- Lewis, G. Malcolm: Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use
- Millea, Nick: The Gough Map: The Earliest Road Map of Great Britain
- Monmonier, Mark: Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather • Read an excerpt.
- Monmonier, Mark: Bushmanders and Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections • Read the web feature "Spotting Bushmanders."
- Monmonier, Mark: Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America • Read the web feature "Ten Risky Places."
- Monmonier, Mark: Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
- Monmonier, Mark: From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame • Read an excerpt.
- Monmonier, Mark: How to Lie with Maps
- Monmonier, Mark: Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Monmonier, Mark: Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
- Monmonier, Mark: Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection • Read an excerpt.
- Monmonier, Mark: Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy • Read the web feature "Eleven Ways You Are Being Watched."
- Mundy, Barbara E.: The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
- Newberry Library: Cartographic Treasures of the Newberry Library
- Padron, Ricardo: The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain
- Pedley, Mary Sponberg: The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England
- Scafi, Alessandro: Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth
- Snyder, John P.: Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections
- Wood, Denis: The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World
- Woodward, David: Catalogue of Watermarks in Italian Printed Maps, ca. 1540-1600
- Woodward, David: The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies • See our web feature.
- Woodward, David: The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance
Geography
- Agnew, John A.: Place and Politics in Modern Italy
- Bruegmann, Robert: Sprawl: A Compact History • Read an excerpt.
- Burnett, D. Graham: Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado
- Clay, Grady: Close-Up: How to Read the American City
- Clay, Grady: Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape
- Cormack, Lesley B.: Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities 1580-1620
- Driver, Felix: Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire
- Driver, Felix: Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire
- Forsberg, Michael: Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild
- Frantz, Klaus: Indian Reservations in the United States: Territory, Sovereignty, and Socioeconomic Change
- Freund, David M. P.: Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
- Garb, Margaret: City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
- Godlewska, Anne Marie Claire: Geography Unbound: French Geographic Science from Cassini to Humboldt
- Good, Charles M.: The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier
- Goswami, Manu: Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space
- Greenberg, Joel: A Natural History of the Chicago Region • Only on the web: Greenberg’s Naturalist’s Tour of Southern Lake Michigan.
- Greiner, Alyson L.: Anglo-Celtic Australia: Colonial Immigration and Cultural Regionalism
- Herbert, Steve: Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community
- Hollander, M. Gail: Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida
- Hudson, John C.: Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region
- Jakle, John A.: My Kind of Midwest: Omaha to Ohio
- Johnson, Linda: The Kandik Map
- Kelley, Margot Anne: Local Treasures: Geocaching across America
- Krauss, Michael: Native Peoples and Languages of Alaska : Map
- Krim, Arthur: Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway
- Kull, Christian A.: Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar
- Ladd, Brian: The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape
- Lambin, Eric: The Middle Path: Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe • Read an excerpt.
- Lewis, Robert: Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis
- Livingstone, David N.: Geography and Enlightenment
- Livingstone, David N.: Geography and Revolution
- Livingstone, David N.: Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge
- Lutz, Catherine A.: Reading National Geographic
- Ogborn, Miles: Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company
- Olsson, Gunnar: Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason
- Papadopoulos, Alex G.: Urban Regimes and Strategies: Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels
- Parker, Geoffrey: Sovereign City: The City-State Ancient and Modern
- Porter, Philip W.: Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania
- Portuondo, Mar¨a M.: Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World
- Prince, Hugh: Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes
- Ryan, James R.: Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire
- Safier, Neil: Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
- Salet, Willem: Amsterdam Human Capital
- Schulten, Susan: The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
- Simmons, G. I.: Global Environmental History
- Stanger-Ross, Jordan: Staying Italian: Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia
- von Humboldt, Alexander: Essay on the Geography of Plants
- Walls, Laura Dassow: The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
- Washburn, Bradford: Mount McKinley, Alaska
- Withers, Charles W. J.: Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason
- Wong, Theo E.: Geology of the Netherlands
- Zimmerer, Karl S.: Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation
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