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It’s time for the annual list of books in map history, as well as some more conceptual and contemporary works that seem to me of relevance to map history. I doubt if I’ll see any more before the end of the year, so here it is. Previous annual lists are from href="https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2024/12/19/2024-books-in-map-history-plus-some-i-missed-from-202...
Here is another vignette that I’ve had to cut from the WIP manuscript follows, much reconfigured for this stand-alone essay based on readily available resources. I am indebted to Jean-Marc Besse for sharing some information about the exhibition with me, especially for clarifying for me the respective creative roles of Macchi and Rivière, and for directing me to t...
Three things just dropped, or at least came to my attention.
I was interviewed for the Washington Post re the ongoing resurgence of anti-Mercator critique caused by the African Union’s endorsement of the Equal-Earth projection: Maham Javaid, “Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map,” Washington Post (26 August 2025) at href="https:/...
I’ve been looking afresh at an old friend—Phelps & Watson’s New Map of the United States (New York: Phelps & Watson, 1860)—that demonstrates how portions of lithographic works can be easily modified, replaced, or moved around on the stone.
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