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Recent Trends in the History of Cartography: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography to the English-Language Literature
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2007-04-11)
The history of cartography has since the 1970s significantly expanded its disciplinary reach, its theoretical directions and approaches, and its scholarship. This annotated bibliography is intended as a guide to the extended ...
A Mirror of Our World: Google Earth and the History of Cartography
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2009-08-20)
Google Earth is widely admired as one of the most advanced and powerful products of modern computerized cartography. It has been praised as a revolutionary new way of viewing the earth, as the first convincing attempt at ...
Teaching the History of Cartography: A Case for the Marriage of Special Collections and Distance Learning
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-09-25)
Very few institutions offer introductory courses in the history of cartography. Distance learning is a way to make this type of course more widely available. This paper discusses the ways in which special collections ...