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Cartography

Imperial Map

Akerman, James R.
Cartography and the Mastery of Empire
March 2009

Maps

Akerman, James R.
Finding Our Place in the World
November 2007

World at Their Fingertips

Armitage, Geoff
Eighteenth-Century British Two-Sheet Double-Hemisphere World Maps
August 2012 New Book

London: A History in Maps

Barber, Peter
September 2012 New Book

Atlas of World Hunger

Bassett, Thomas J.
May 2010 E-book

London

Batchelor, Robert K.
The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689
December 2013 New Book

Mapping Manifest Destiny

Conzen, Michael P.
Chicago and the American West
June 2008

Mapping Latin America

Dym, Jordana
A Cartographic Reader
September 2011 E-book

History of Cartography, Volume 1

Harley, J. B.
Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
May 1987

History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1

Harley, J. B.
Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
August 1992

History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 2

Harley, J. B.
Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies
February 1995

Magnificent Maps

Harper, Tom
Power, Propaganda and Art
September 2010

Medieval Maps of the Holy Land

Harvey, P. D. A.
December 2012 New Book

Terra Incognita

Hiatt, Alfred
Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
July 2008

Atlas of Coasts and Oceans

Hinrichsen, Don
Ecosystems, Threatened Resources, Marine Conservation
June 2011

American Boundaries

Hubbard, Bill
The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey
February 2009 E-book

Kandik Map

Johnson, Linda
September 2009

Disease Maps

Koch, Tom
Epidemics on the Ground
June 2011 E-book

Coast Lines

Monmonier, Mark
How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
May 2008 E-book

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow

Monmonier, Mark
How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
May 2006 E-book

How to Lie with Maps

Monmonier, Mark
May 1996

No Dig, No Fly, No Go

Monmonier, Mark
How Maps Restrict and Control
May 2010 E-book

Mapping of New Spain

Mundy, Barbara E.
Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geograficas
December 1996

Sea Monsters

Nigg, Joseph
A Voyage around the World's Most Beguiling Map
October 2013 New Book

Negotiated Landscape

Rubin, Jasper
The Transformation of San Francisco’s Waterfront since 1950
August 2011

Mapping the Nation

Schulten, Susan
History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
July 2012 New Book E-book

Mapping Europe's Borderlands

Seegel, Steven
Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire
May 2012 New Book E-book

Korea

Short, John Rennie
A Cartographic History
May 2012 New Book E-book

Ancient Perspectives

Talbert, Richard J. A.
Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
November 2012 New Book

Maps and Civilization

Thrower, Norman J. W.
Cartography in Culture and Society, Fourth Edition
July 2013 New Book

Natures of Maps

Wood, Denis
Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World
January 2009

History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3

Woodward, David
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
December 1998

History of Cartography, Volume 3

Woodward, David
Cartography in the European Renaissance
September 2007

Geography

Sprawl

Bruegmann, Robert
A Compact History
November 2005 E-book

Birth of Territory

Elden, Stuart
August 2013 New Book

Great Plains

Forsberg, Michael
America's Lingering Wild
October 2009

Colored Property

Freund, David M. P.
State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
August 2007 E-book

Knowing Nature

Goldman, Mara J.
Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies
April 2011 E-book

Raising Cane in the 'Glades

Hollander, Gail
The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida
August 2008 E-book

Mastering Iron

Knowles, Anne Kelly
The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868
January 2013 New Book E-book

Mastering the Niger

Lambert, David
James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery
November 2013 New Book

Middle Path

Lambin, Eric
Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe
October 2007

Geographies of Mars

Lane, K. Maria D.
Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet
December 2010 E-book

Chicago Made

Lewis, Robert
Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis
December 2008 E-book

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Livingstone, David N.
July 2011 E-book

American Capitals

Montès, Christian
A Historical Geography
December 2013 New Book

Planning the Home Front

Peterson, Sarah Jo
Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run
May 2013 New Book E-book

Secret Science

Portuondo, María M.
Spanish Cosmography and the New World
June 2009 E-book

Measuring the New World

Safier, Neil
Enlightenment Science and South America
September 2008 E-book

Global Environmental History

Simmons, I.
August 2008

Staying Italian

Stanger-Ross, Jordan
Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia
February 2010 E-book

Passage to Cosmos

Walls, Laura Dassow
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
September 2009 E-book

Placing the Enlightenment

Withers, Charles W. J.
Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason
June 2007 E-book

World of Rivers

Wohl, Ellen
Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers
November 2010 E-book

Essay on the Geography of Plants

von Humboldt, Alexander
March 2010 E-book

Political Essay on the Island of Cuba

von Humboldt, Alexander
A Critical Edition
May 2011 E-book

Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

von Humboldt, Alexander
A Critical Edition
January 2013 New Book E-book