Progressive Geographies

The History of Cartography Project Volume 6 Cartography in the Twentieth Centuryhas been published by the University of Chicago Press. Mark Monmonier is the Editor.

As it happens the sample content for Vol 6 includes the whole of my entry on “Race, Maps and the Social Construction of” and is available online including color reproductions!

The Volume is in two books consisting of over 2,000 pages and 805 color plates for 529 entries for a price of $500/£350. I’ve briefly examined the books and they look fabulous.

I was fortunate enough to attend the publication party at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Below are pictures of Mark Monmonier giving a short talk at the book launch, and Roz Woodward (L) & Jude Leimer (R). David Woodward and Brian Harley were the original editors, conceiving the project in 1977. Matthew Edney is now overall Editor. David was represented by…

This instalment of the bibliography lists Serres’ film and television appearances, as well as those videos freely available on the web in which he features (see all the Serres bibliography posts together on this page).

This is the second version of this section of the bibliography. In this version, videos from Youtube, Dailymotion and Vimeo are embedded in the page, and you can view them directly within it. For that reason, the page may load slowly on some machines. To see the list without the embedded clips, please go here. I have been careful not to link to any material under copyright, but if you spot an infringement let me know and I’ll delete the link.

Tip: if you don’t speak French but want to watch the French language videos, some youtube clips can automatically translate subtitles. Click on the “CC” icon at the foot of the video (1 in…

This part of the bibliography lists Serres’ film and television appearances, as well as those videos freely available on the web in which he features (see all the Serres bibliography posts together on this page).

This is the first of two versions of this section of the bibliography. On the other version, Youtube, Dailymotion and Vimeo clips are embedded directly into the list, so that you can access them within the page, which will make the other version take longer to load and be prohibitively slow on some machines. I have been careful not to link to any material under copyright, but if you spot an infringement let me know and I’ll delete the link.

Tip: if you don’t speak French but want to watch the French language videos, some youtube clips can automatically translate subtitles. Click on the “CC” icon at the foot of the video (1 in the…