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Volume One PDFs          The first volume of the History       Buy the
                         of Cartography was published in      Books
  * Cartography in       1987 and the three books that
    Prehistoric,         constitute Volume Two appeared    book jacket
    Ancient, and         over the following eleven years.  The History
    Medieval Europe and  In 1987 the worldwide web did not of
    the Mediterranean    exist, and since 1998 book        Cartography,
                         publishing has gone through a     Volume 1
Volume Two PDFs          revolution in the production and  book jacket
                         dissemination of work. Although   The History
  * Book 1: Cartography  the large format and high quality of
    in the Traditional   image reproduction of the printed Cartography,
    Islamic and South    books (see right column) are      Volume 2:
    Asian Societies      still well-suited to the          Book 1
  * Book 2: Cartography  requirements for the publishing   book jacket
    in the Traditional   of maps, the online availability  The History
    East and Southeast   of material is a boon to scholars of
    Asian Societies      and map enthusiasts.              Cartography,
  * Book 3: Cartography                                    Volume 2:
    in the Traditional   On this site the University of    Book 2
    African, American,   Chicago Press is pleased to       book jacket
    Arctic, Australian,  present first five published      The History
    and Pacific          volumes of the History of         of
    Societies            Cartography in PDF format.        Cartography,
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Volume Three PDFs        left column. Each chapter of each Book 3
                         book is a single PDF. The search  book jacket
  * Cartography in the   box on the left allows searching  The History
    European             across the content of the PDFs    of
    Renaissance, Part 1  that make up all eight books.     Cartography,
  * Cartography in the                                     Volume 3
    European             "An important scholarly           book jacket
    Renaissance, Part 2  enterprise, the History of        The History
                         Cartography ... is the most         of
Volume Four PDFs         ambitious overview of map making  Cartography,
                         ever undertaken .... People come to Volume 4
  * Cartography in the   know the world the way they come  book jacket
    European             to map it--through their           The History
    Enlightenment        perceptions of how its elements   of
                         are connected and of how they     Cartography,
Volume Six PDFs          should move among them. This is   Volume 6
                         precisely what the series is         View your
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    Twentieth Century    at the heart of cultural life and        cart 
                         revealing its relationship to         shopping
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                         It is trying to define a new set
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                         a new map of human attempts to
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                         Rothstein, New York Times
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                         not only about maps, but about
                         how and why and with what
                         consequences civilizations have
                         apprehended, expanded, and
                         utilized the potential of
                         maps."--Josef W. Konvitz, Isis


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