{"title":"Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i","authors":"Gary L. Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2044187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044187","url":null,"abstract":"Mapping America: The Incredible Story opens with a prologue followed by ten chapters, an epilogue, further reading and a notes’ section. There is no index. The chapters are organized in a mix of chronological order spliced with topical interludes, starting with ‘The Dawn of the Renaissance’ and continuing with ‘The Discovery [sic] of the Americas’, ‘The First European Settlements’, ‘The Golden Age of Cartography’, ‘The Eighteenth-Century Colonization of America’, ‘Daily Life in the English Colonies’, ‘Mapping the Prelude to War’, ‘The Outbreak of Rebellion’, ‘The Battle for Independence’, and ‘The Road to Victory’. The authors have an ambitious goal claiming that ‘this book will tell the full story of America, from the Age of Discovery through the Revolutionary War... through the art of mapmaking’. There is a disconnect, though, between the stated aim and what is delivered, especially visually. One would reasonably expect a story about stunning maps to have many detailed close-ups of maps, or at least enough information to find out more about them. Yet few of the maps state where they are located or who supplied the images. Most such information is missing, including size and the version presented. While each of the 147 images (just over half are maps) is labelled as ‘Fig. 1, Fig. 2’ etc., none is directly referred to within the text, and the reader is left to hunt them down. Usually the figures are on the same page or within a page of where they are discussed, but sometimes a map is brought up in the narrative without a corresponding image. At other times the caption of an image tells a mini story about its relevance but will not otherwise be mentioned in the body of the text. For a book with the word ‘maps’ in the title, they are treated as if an afterthought. Certain aspects of the writing are disappointingly and cringingly dated, such as the use of the word ‘discovery’ without irony more than a dozen times, including as chapter and section headings. When telling a history of the process of the United States becoming a nation, the story is relayed with an openly biased perspective. The text refers to ‘we’ when addressing the presumed reader, who is clearly white, male, Christian and of European ancestry. For example, ‘North America before the arrival of Europeans was not the untamed land that we often believe it to be’. It would be a challenge to find an educated, indigenous or aware person who believes this today. There are gaps in the survey of historical mapping of the era purported to be covered thoroughly. For example, not a single Des Barres map is mentioned, which anyone studying this time period would expect to see. And there are false claims. For example, a map said to be never-before-published (Henri Soules [sic], Plan of the Battle of Yorktown, 1787) is easily found digitized and online. Examples of inconsistent captions, missing information and lack of credit abound. The Incredible Story is an attempt at a history of the early Unit","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"128 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47752529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason: Maps, Landscapes, Travelogues in Britain and India","authors":"Philip Jagessar","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2044203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044203","url":null,"abstract":"License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For citation use the DOI. For commercial re-use, please contact editor@rupkatha.com. Review article Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason: Maps, Landscapes, Travelogues in Britain and India by Nilanjana Mukherjee","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"138 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42640080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor","authors":"S. Ferdinand","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2044180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044180","url":null,"abstract":"As historians of science and of knowledge, the words we use are inextricably connected to the worlds we research, and vice versa. Veronica Della Dora ’ s The Mantle of the Earth provides a revealing and detailed study of the ‘ textile ’ metaphors that have been used by geographers, geologists, mapmakers and other thinkers and crafters throughout many centuries. The book is structured chronologically and falls into four different sec-tions, each with a specific thematic accent. Each part of the book subsequently contains two or three chapters each. The third part, entitled ‘ The surfaces of modernity ’ , provides an excellent read on the history of geography and cartography. In the first chapter of this part, the emergence of geography as an academic discipline is discussed, paying specific attention to the changing role of the geographer: the geographer slowly became ‘ an objective describer of the surface of the earth and its regions ’ (p. 163). This shift happened roughly during the early years of the twentieth century. The ‘ birth ’ of the academic discipline we know today is discussed before, but by positioning this development in a longer tradition and by focusing on the ways geographers describe their activities, Della Dora offers a very innovative perspective on the existing historiographical narratives. She brings together knowledges, practices and verbal and visual representations of how people from the past have approached the world around them. For instance, in describing the changing nature of geography in the early twentieth century, she says, The old mantle of the earth thus becomes a tablecloth under the scrutiny of the geographer ’ s omniscient gaze. Humboldt ’ s contemplation of landscape as a theatre made of visibilities and invisibilities, the Romantic pantheistic interfusion with its ele-ments, the mystical curtains of haze and light have now all been replaced by the sys-tematic study of the morphology of the tablecloth, of its ripples, folds, and tattered edges, of the features lying","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"125 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47566756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Next International Conference on the History of Cartography","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2042119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2042119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":" ","pages":"vi - vi"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48193544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Student’s Guide to Map Making: J. Parlier’s 1905 and 1907 Cartographic Manuals","authors":"Kory E. Olson","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2042129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2042129","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1905, Jacques Parlier, a former artillery captain in the French army, published the first of two Méthode(s) de cartographie, cartes à main levée et de mémoire tracés rapides to teach French students how to draw maps. Parlier had become convinced of the centrality of geographical knowledge to French national security and interests. His manuals brought geographical and cartographical literacy to a generation of students in France. This paper examines those manuals, specifically in terms of how they were designed to present the cartographic craft to school-aged children, a new market for this discipline. Parlier’s strategy involved simplifying continents and countries to appear as geometrical forms and going on to focus on their physical attributes, such as rivers, mountains and coasts, thus encouraging teachers to lecture less and students to draw more.","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"102 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46986445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Completing the Map of the World: Cartographic Interaction between China and Europe (Quantu: Zhongguo yu Ouzhou zhijian de ditu xue hudong)","authors":"R. A. Pegg","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2044201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"137 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41694912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vistes panoràmiques, cartes militars i plànols urbanístics a Barcelona del segle XVI al XIX","authors":"À. Nobajas","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2044195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"133 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49364819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States","authors":"Kristy Butler","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2044183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"128 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46685875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America","authors":"H. Langfur","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2044188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044188","url":null,"abstract":"modern Hawaii, everyday spoken conversation is conducted using a blended approach in which an expanding range of Hawaiian words is easily included. This is particularly true in scholarly works, where inappropriate Western terms have been displaced by Hawaiian words. Thus Mapping Abundance incorporates a considerable vocabulary that will be unfamiliar to readers who do not live there. And that is for the better. As I argued in Surveying the Mahele (Honolulu, Editions Limited, 1994), it is erroneous to talk about Hawaiian land practices using terms from Western culture. The same is true of other aspects of culture. Western terminology alone is not sufficient to discuss Hawaiian traditions and practices. The terms malama and kuleana, for instance, represent complex concepts of responsibility for care of the land. Geographically, this reintroduction of Hawaiian terminology is particularly relevant. For instance, fifty years ago, the commonly understood definition of the term ahupuaʻa, a basic land unit, was a pie-shaped unit that ran from mountain top to the sea. Today, people are far more cognizant that ahupuaʻa and related terms such as ʻili and kuleana refer to a much more subtle concept of land tenure. With a larger number of people now being fluent in Hawaiian, nuances are being teased out of the language and applied to discussions of Hawai’i’s past and future. Fujikane, of the University of Hawaii, offers insight into how traditional, indigenous descriptions of landscapes found in chants are fuelling efforts by Hawaiian activists to increase productivity (in a broad sense) by displacing Western practices with ones derived from native knowledge. Fujikane shows that Hawaiian mythological chants contain specific and reliable geographical descriptions and thus constitute legitimate forms of ‘cartographies’ or ‘geographies’ as she labels them. In several cases she illustrates how such native geographical knowledge can be displayed with Western cartographical techniques, thus making it useful for restoring past practices, protesting controversial actions and addressing legal challenges in court. Within the context of academic studies of the history of cartography, Hawaii is something of an outlier. It was not until the 1830s that any Western-based mapping was done by Hawaiians themselves, and earlier mapping by non-Hawaiians was not undertaken for the benefit of the people of Hawaii (Fitzpatrick, Early Mapping of Hawaii, 1986). When the communal system of land ownership was replaced with a Western-styled system of private landownership in the 1840s and 1850s, much knowledge of the land-use practices of traditional Hawaii was lost. From 1870 to 1898, the Hawaiian Government Survey conducted a sophisticated mapping operation that documented a considerable amount of the localized knowledge that had survived until that time. Mapping Abundance is a testament to the excellent work academics and activists are doing in tapping traditional literature to enhan","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"129 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45509826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wolfgang Lazius (1514–1565): Geschichtsschreibung, Kartographie und Altertumswissenschaft im Wien des 16. Jahrhunderts","authors":"Jost Schmid-Lanter","doi":"10.1080/03085694.2022.2044190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2022.2044190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44589,"journal":{"name":"Imago Mundi-The International Journal for the History of Cartography","volume":"74 1","pages":"131 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47065125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}