Books - HIST 118: Introduction to the History of Science - Historical Maps (HC)

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new window to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore.

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a title search in the Tripod Catalog to find some relevant material and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.

(geograph* OR explorer* OR exploration) AND renaissance [Keyword]

(maps OR cartograph*) [Subject] AND "17th century" [Subject]

"map industry" [Subject]

(print* OR publish*) [Keywords] AND (map* OR cartograph* OR atlas*) AND history [Subjects]

Tripod Catalog
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Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges each have their own Tripod catalog. Use Tripod to find relevant scholarship owned by your home library as well as print resources at the other two schools. To see digital material owned only by BMC, use the BMC Tripod link (tripod.brynmawr.edu). You will need to be on the BMC campus in order to access those digital resources.
Change the resource group on the search bar to limit results to specific materials like books and films.
Use the Request link in an item's record to have it delivered to the library of your choice . Note that you need to log into Tripod in order to see the Request link. If you are already in Tripod, use the Sign In link at the top of every page to log in.

WorldCat
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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries worldwide. Also includes maps, films and sound recordings. Some digital titles are available open access from links in WorldCat.
WorldCat is an important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 1 billion titles owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the FindIt button to place requests.

Borrowing beyond the Tri-Co
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1. E-Z Borrow - Request books that are not available in Tripod. It often takes three days or less for E-Z Borrow books to arrive from regional libraries including Penn and NYU.
2. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) - Request books not in E-Z Borrow. They can come in as little as four or five days. Also use ILL to request dissertations, reports, and other materials.
3. Articles - Request journal articles not available in your college library. You will receive digital copies of the articles in your email often in two to three days.

Selected Books

The Cartographic State by Jordan Branch
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Publication Date: 2013-11-28
This book examines the important but overlooked role played by cartography itself in the development of modern states. Drawing upon evidence from the history of cartography, peace treaties and political practices, the book reveals that early modern mapping dramatically altered key ideas and practices among both rulers and subjects.
The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-century France and England by Mary Sponberg Pedley
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Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Pedley traces the process of mapmaking from compilation, production, and marketing to consumption, reception, and criticism. She answers such questions as why did 18th-century aesthetic ideals override the modern values of accuracy and detail? And what, to an 18th-century mind and eye, qualified as a good map?
Magnificent Maps by Peter Barber; Tom Harper
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Publication Date: 2010-04-01
Magnificent maps used size and beauty to convey messages of status and power. This book takes the best surviving examples to re-establish manuscript, painted, and mural maps as a major cultural medium, particularly in early modern Europe by illustrating the settings in which they were displayed and discussing the background and purpose of individual examples.
The Map Makers' World by Marjo Nurminen; Juha Nurminen
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Publication Date: 2015-11-15
Illuminates the fascinating cultural history of European world maps: what do historical world maps tell of us, of our perception of the world, and of places and peoples that are foreign to us? How were the maps created and for whom were they drawn and printed? For what purposes were they used? The answers to these questions relate not only to ideology and political power but also the histories of art and science.
Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion: Mapping Stories and Movement through Time by Zef Segal (Editor);
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Publication Date: 2020-10-26
This volume argues that the mapping of stories, movement and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a long history including the figurative news and history maps that were mass-produced in early modern Europe.
The New Map of Empire by S. Max Edelson
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ISBN: 9780674972117
Publication Date: 2017-04-24
This book pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of Britain's imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution. Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, surveyors mapped the far-flung frontiers to give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic. Also available in print in Tripod.
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human by Surekha Davies
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Publication Date: 2016-06-02
Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. He argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as enabling viewers to compare different peoples.Europeans believed that environment impacted bodies and temperaments. Print copy also available in Tripod.
The Shaping of Africa by Francesc Relano
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Publication Date: 2002-12-01
This book traces the origins of the idea of Africa. Themes investigated include:How did the Renaissance rediscovery of Antiquity interact with the Portuguese discoveries along the African coast? And once Africa was circumnavigated, how was the inner landmass depicted in the absence of first-hand knowledge? And, overall, in this whole process what was the interplay of myth and reality?