Assigned Readings
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John Brian Harley, “Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe,” Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography 40 (1988): 57-76.
Bruno Latour, “Chapter 6: Centres of Calculation,” in Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society, pp. 215-237. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987).
Matthew H. Edney, “The Irony of Imperial Mapping,” in The Imperial Map. Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. James R. Akerman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009): 11-46.
R.J.W. Evans, “Essay and Reflection: Frontiers and National Identities in Central Europe,” The International History Review 14, no. 3 (1992): 480-502.
Jason D. Hansen, “Introduction,” “Chapter 1: Counting Germans: The Search for a Practical Means to Measure Nationality,” and “Chapter 2: Mapping Germans: Making the Cultural Nation Visible,” in Mapping the Germans: Statistical Science, Cartography, and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914, pp. 1-15, 16-50, 51-74. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
Additional Readings
Matthew Edney, “Mapping Parts of the World,” in Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, eds. James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press): 117-157.
Matthew H. Edney, “Cartography without ‘progress’: reinterpreting the nature and historical development of mapmaking,” Cartographica 30 (1993): 54-67.
John Brian Harley, “Text and Contexts in the Interpretation of Early Maps,” The New Nature of Maps. Essays in the History of Cartography, ed. Paul Laxton (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2002): 33-50.
Valerie Kivelson, “Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth. Imperial Maps and Christian Spaces in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Russian Siberia,” in The Imperial Map. Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. James R. Akerman (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009): 47-91.
Steven Seegel, Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Bruno Latour, “Drawing things together,” in Representation in Scientific Practice, eds. Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990): 19-68.
Valerie A. Kivelson, “Cartography, Autocracy and State Powerlessness: The Uses of Maps in Early Modern Russia,” Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography 51 (1999): 83-105.
Madalina-Valeria Veres, “Putting Transylvania on the map: Cartography and Enlightened Absolutism in the Habsburg Monarchy,” Austrian History Yearbook 43 (2012): 141-164.
Historical Cartography 