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The Work That Maps Do
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The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2018) 49 (3): 473–481.
Published: 01 November 2018
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Martin Brückner’s The Social Life of Maps will appeal to scholars from many disciplines—material studies and English literature (his home fields), geography, American studies, and, not least, the U.S. historical community. Maps have never been the preserve of geographers, certainly not in their making nor, as Brückner convincingly shows, in the various practices of public and popular “mappery.” One of the strengths of this book is that it re-affirms and deepens the connections of geography as an educational and imaginative practice with the power of the historical imagination in shaping America’s national identity, territorial reach, and, if only nascent in the period that Brückner considers, empire.
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The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2011) 42 (3): 429–437.
Published: 01 November 2011
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Map history is fertile interdisciplinary terrain. No longer the preserve of map historians presiding as custodian-interpreters of a simple mimetic truth, map history now involves historians, historians of art and of science, geographers, literary scholars, and, just as important, new forms of curatorial scholarship and responsibility. The purpose and interpretation of the large maps on display in one form or another between c.1450 and 1850 throughout Europe depended greatly upon the physical and social environments of their viewing. Insights from the history of the book and the history of science offer new possibilities for the continued interdisciplinary interrogation of these maps as visual and textual sources.
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The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2008) 38 (4): 593–594.
Published: 01 April 2008
View articletitled, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment . By Jan Golinski (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007) 284 pp. $35.00
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