Reading List

  • Babinski, Mark (Matthew H. Edney, ed.), Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in North America. Web: http://usm.maine.edu/maps/popple/index.html.
  • Baynton-Williams, Roger, Investing in Maps. London: Barrie and Rockliff, the Cresset Press, 1969.
  • Benson, Guy Meriwether, with William R. Irwin and Heather Moore, Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark. Charlottesville: Department of Special Collections, University of Virginia, 1995.
  • Benson, Guy Meriwether, with William R. Irwin and Heather Moore, Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Library, 2002.
  • Berggren, J. Lennart and Alexander Jones, ed. Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • Biggs, Michael. “Putting the State on the Map: Cartography, Territory, and European State Formation.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 41, no. 2 (1999): 374-405.
  • Black, Jeremy. Maps and Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 
  • Black, Jeremy. Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997a.
  • Black, Jeremy. Visions of the World: A History of Maps. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2003.
  • Boelhower, William. "Inventing America: The Culture of the Map," Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines, Vol. XIII No. 36 (April 1988): 211-24.
  • Brown, Lloyd A., The Story of Maps. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1949.
  • Bruckner, Martin. The Geographic Revolution in Early America- Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
  • Buisseret, David, ed. Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
  • Buisseret, David. The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Buissert, David. "Spanish and French Mapping of the Gulf of Mexico in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" in The Mapping of the American Southwest, edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Charles C. Colley, pp. 3-17. College Station TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1987.
  • Burden, Philip d. Burden. The Mapping of North America: a List of Printed Maps, 1511-1670. Herts, England: Raleigh Publications, 1996.
  • Burden, Philip d. Burden. The Mapping of North America: a List of Printed Maps, 1671-1700. Herts, England: Raleigh Publications, 1996.
  • Clark, Dan E., "News and Opinion Concerning America in English Newspapers, 1754-1763." The Pacific Historical Review, 10.1 (Mar 1941): 75-82.
  • Crane, Verner W. "The Southern Frontier in Queen Anne's War." American Historical Review 24 (April 1919): 379-395.
  • Crone, G.R., Maps and Their Makers: An Introduction to the History of Cartography. Hamden CT: Archon Books, The Shoe String Press, Inc., 1978.
  • Cumming, William P., The Southeast in Early Maps, 3rd edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 
  • Edney, Matthew H. John Mitchell's Map: an Irony of Empire. Web: www.usm.maine.edu/-maps/Mitchell/toc.html.
  • Ehrenberg, Ralph E. Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography. Washington DC: National Geographic, 2006.
  • Grim, Ronald E. and Roni Pick. Journeys of the Imagination: An Exhibition of World Maps and Atlases from the Collections of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, April 2006 through August 2006. Boston Public—see Journeys of the Imagination
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  • Harley, J.B., "The Map and the Development of the History of Cartography" in The History of Cartography, vol. 1, Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, edited by J.B. Harley and David Woodward, pp. 1-42. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
  • Harley, J.B. and David Woodward, eds., The History of Cartography, Cartography in the European Renaissance, vol. 3, pt. 1-2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
  • Harley, J. B. (edited by Paul Laxton). New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  • Harley, J.B., Barbara Bartz Petchenik, and Lawrence W. Towner. Mapping the American Revolutionary War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
  • Jacob, Christian. The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography Throughout History.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Klinefelter, Walter. "Lewis Evans and His Maps." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Ser., 61.7 (1971): 3-65.
  • Koeman, C. Atlantes neerlandici; bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1880. Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1967-1971.

  • Koeman, Ir. C., Joan Blaeu and His Grand Atlas. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1963.
  • Krygier, John B. “Cartography as an Art and a Science?” The Cartographic Journal 32 (1995): 3-10.
  • Lister, Raymond, Antique Maps and Their Cartographers. Hamden CT: Archon Books, 1970.
  • McGuirk, Donald L. Jr., "Ruysch World Map: Census and Commentary." Imago Mundi, Vol. 41. (1989): 133-141.
  • Mundy, Barbara E. The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  • Nebenzahl, Kenneth. A bibliography of the printed battle plans of the American Revolution 1775-1795, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.

  • Padrón, Ricardo. The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
  • Pedley, Mary. The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • Petchenik, Barbara Bartz. “Maps, Markets and Money: A Look at the Economic Underpinnings of Cartography.” Cartographica 22, no. 3 (1985): 7-19.
  • Pritchard, Margaret Beck and Henry G. Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America. Williamsburg VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2002. 
  • Reinhartz, Dennis and Charles C. Colley, eds., The Mapping of the American Southwest.  College Station TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1987.
  • Ristow, Walter W., American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985.
  • Robinson, Arthur H. "Mapmaking and Map Printing: The Evolution of a Working Relationship. In Woodward, David, ed., pp. 1-24, Five Centuries of Map Printing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
  • Sabin, Joseph. A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time (2 vol). Mansfield Centre (CT): Martino Fine Books, 1998 (a small print reprint of the original 1868 edition).

  • Schwartz, Seymour I., The French and Indian War, 1754-1763. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
  • Schwartz, Seymour I. This Land Is Your Land: the Geographic Evolution of the United States. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
  • Schwartz, Seymour I., The Mismapping of America. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003.
  • Schwartz, Seymour I., Putting America on the Map: the Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007.
  • Schwartz, Seymour I. and Ralph E. Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America. Edison NJ: Wellfleet Press 2001.
  • Shirley, Rodney W. The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps, 1472-1700. London: Holand Press, 1983.
  • Snyder, John Parr. Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • Taylor, E.G.R., "The Surveyor." The Economic History Review, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1947): 121-133.
  • Thrower, Norman J.W. Maps and Man: An Examination of Cartography in Relation to Culture and Civilization. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972.
  • Thrower, Norman J. W. Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  • Verner, Coolie. "Copperplate Printing." In Woodward, David, ed., pp. 51-76, Five Centuries of Map Printing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
  • Wheat, Carl I., Mapping the American West, 1540-1857. Worcester MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1954.
  • Wheat, James Clements and Brun, Christian F. Maps and charts published in America before 1800: a bibliography, revised edition. London: The Holland Press Limited, 1978.

  • Wilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
  • Withers, Charles W. J. Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
  • Wood, Dennis. The Power of Maps. Guilford Press, 1992.
  • Woodward, David. "The Woodcut Technique. In Woodward, David, ed., pp. 25- 50, Five Centuries of Map Printing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
  • Woodward, David. Maps as Prints in the Italian Renaissance: Makers, Distributors & Consumers. London: The British Library, 1996.
  • Woodward, David, ed. Five Centuries of Map Printing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
  • Woodward, David, ed. Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
  • Woodward, David, ed. The history of cartography, volume 3: cartography in the European Renaissance (2 vol). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007.