How we make maps and why: The University of Chicago Press History of Cartography, 1987–2024 - Talking Humanities
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Roger Kain, professor of humanities at the School of Advanced Study and editor of the History of Cartography’s fifth volume, discusses how this global collaborative project helps us understand maps as cultural documents.
I am composing this post on 26 March 2020, the day I had arranged in happier times to speak about the University of Chicago Press History of Cartography to the SAS Book and Print Initiative seminar series. I look forward to my talk being rescheduled for next academic year and in the meantime this post is a kind of aperitif.
The History of Cartography is a research, editorial, and publishing project that spans many decades. It is collaborative and genuinely world-wide in coverage, and ranges from the earliest known maps made in prehistory to digital mapping of the late 20th century. The originators, J B Harley and David Woodward, were both UK academics who moved to the US – Harley to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Woodward to the Newberry Library, Chicago following which he took a post at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Woodward and Harley based the History of Cartography Project and from where it still operates.