Maps and Power in Modern African History: Introductory Texts & Comparative Studies

Introductory Texts and Comparative Studies

Allen, Phillip. The atlas of atlases : the map maker's vision of the world. New York : Harry N. Abrams, c1992.

Asiwaju, A.I. Artificial boundaries. New York: Civiletis International, c1990.

Bagrow, Leo. History of cartography = Geschichte der Kartographie. English. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. by R.A. Skelton. Chicago: Precedent Pub., 1985.
--See also: E-book

Benmessaoud Tredano, Abdelmoughit. Intangibilité des frontières coloniales et espace étatique en Afrique. Paris: Librarie générale de droit et jurisprudence, 1989.

Black, Jeremy. Maps and politics London: Reaktion Books, 1997.

Blaut, James M. The colonizer's model of the world : geographical diffusionism and Eurocentric history. New York: Guilford Press, c1993.

Borderlands in Africa : a multidisciplinary and comparative focus on Nigeria and West Africa. Edited by A.I. Asiwaju and P.O. Adeniyi. Lagos: University of Lagos Press, c1989.

Bryan, C.D.B. The National Geographic Society : 100 years of adventure and discovery. New York: H.N. Abrans, 1987.

The Changing geography of Africa and the Middle East. Edited by Graham P. Chapman and Kathleen M. Baker. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992. --See also: E-book

Christopher, A.J. Drawing lines upon the map : inaugural address delivered before the University of Port Elizabeth on the 20th September 1990. Port Elizabeth, South Africa: The University, 1990.

Conley, Tom. The self-made map: cartographic writing in early modern France. E-book. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1997.

Drury, S. A. Images of the earth : a guide to remote sensing. 2nd ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Geographic perspectives in history. Edited by Eugene D. Genovese and Leonard Hochberg. Oxford ; New York: B. Blackwell, 1989.

Geographies of resistance. Edited by Steve Pile and Michael Keith. London; New York: Routledge, 1997.

Geography and imperialism, 1820-1940. Edited by Morag Bell, Robin Butlin, and Michael Heffernan. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York: Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1995.

A geography of the third world. 2nd ed. Edited by John Dickenson ...[et al.]. London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
--See also: E-book

Goss, John. The mapmaker's art : a history of cartography. London: Studio Editions. 1993.

Grove, A. T. The changing geography of Africa. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1989.

The history of cartography. 6 vols. Edited by J.B. Harley and David Woodward. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987--
--See also: E-book
--See especially: "Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies." Volume II, Book 3.

Kennedy, Dane. The last blank spaces : exploring Africa and Australia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, c2013.
--See also: E-book

Konvitz, Josef W. Cartography in France, 1660-1848 : science, engineering, and statecraft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Lewis, Martin W. and Karen E. Wigen. The myth of continents : a critique of metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
--See also: E-book

Longitude Symposium (1993: Harvard University). The quest for longitude : the proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993 Edited by William J.H. Andrewes. Cambridge, Mass.: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, c1996.

Lutz, Catherine and Jane L. Collins. Reading National Geographic. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993.

Maps and Africa : proceedings of a colloquium at the University of Aberdeen. Edited by Jeffrey C. Stone. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University, African Studies Group, 1994.

Mormonier, Mark S. Drawing the line : tales of maps and cartocontroversy. 1st ed. New York: H. Holt, 1995.

Monmonier, Mark S. Rhumb lines and map wars : a social history of the Mercator projection. E-book. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.

L'œil du cartographe et la représentation géographique du Moyen Age à nos jours Sous la direction de Catherine Bousquet-Bressolier. Paris: C.T.H.S., c1995. Mémoire de la Section de géographie physique et humaine; 18.

Phillips, Richard. Mapping men and empire : a geography of adventure. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
--See also: E-book

Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation. London; New York: Routledge, 1992.

Relaño, Francesc.The shaping of Africa : cosmographic discourse and cartographic science in late medieval and early modern Europe. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2001.
--See also: E-book

Scammell, G.V. Ships, oceans, and empire : studies in European maritime and colonial history, 1400-1750. Aldershot, UK: Variorium; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 1995.

Self-determination and secession in Africa : the post-colonial state. Edited by Redie Bereketeab. Abingdon, Oxon : New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
--See also: E-book

Stone, Jeffrey C. A short history of the cartography of Africa. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, c1995.

Snyder, John Parr. Flattening the earth : two thousand years of map projections. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Thrower, Norman Joseph William. Maps & civilization : cartography in culture and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Whitfield, Peter. The image of the world : 20 centuries of world maps. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks in association with the British Library, 1994.

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