Matthew Edney

University of Southern Maine

Affiliations

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

College of Management and Human Service

Service Of College Of Management And Human

School of Business

Department Of Finance And Accounting

Service Of College Of Management And Human

Department Of Geography-Anthropology

Osher Map Library and Smith Center For Cartographic Education

University of Southern Maine

NoneMatthew Edney is currently serving as a College Of Arts, Humanities, And Social Sciences faculty at University of Southern Maine.

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Matthew Edney

University of Southern Maine

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cartography geography history historical geography historiography geospatial mapping cultural history civilizations english global history geographical information science geovisualization intellectual history european archaeology geographic analytics historical methodology historical reconstruction academic cartography european enlightenment north america john smith political history history of art empire modernity european society interdisciplinary history french history west european politics localization quantitative science studies science advance electronic library library hi tech narrative international history digital geography historical reassessment cover mapping geospatial semantics historical analysis historical scholarship mapping processes internal map history critical study eighteenth-century britain official maps reflection essay topographical mapping scientific reformation modern era anglophone toponyms cautionary historiography john mitchell classics archival research archaeology humanities art history english language latin literature world literature historical review urban history comparative literature early modern philosophy art history of science literary history literature human geography archaeological practice public history latin american antiquity american literature postcolonial writing caribbean studies social history colonialism heritage studies economic history early republic victorian literature environmental history western american literature american studies

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A Response to Denil (2024). Cartographic Perspectives (2025)

philosophy of sciencequantitative science studiesscientific communicationscience and technology studiesscience advance

Historical Geography and the Cartographic Illusion of Exceptionalism. Journal of Historical Geography (2025)

civilizationsglobal historycultural historyhuman geographyhistorical geographyhistorycartography

Harold Louis Osher (1924–2023). Imago Mundi (2024)

Matthew H. Edney

How Did Early Modern Scholars Study Early Maps?. Cartographic Perspectives (2024)

civilizationseuropean archaeologyarchaeologyhistory of sciencehistorical geographyhistorycartography

Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America. Imago Mundi (2024)

Matthew H. EdneyThomas Horst

mathematicsamir alexandermathematical dreamland

Making Explicit the Implicit, Idealized Understanding of “Map” and “Cartography”. Cartographic Perspectives (2022)

Matthew H Edney

geographical information sciencespatial analysiscognitive sciencegeographic analyticsgeospatial mappinggeographic information systemsgeographylocalizationgeospatial semanticsidealized understandinggeovisualizationcover mappingcartography

Norman Joseph William Thrower (23 October 1919–2 September 2020). Imago Mundi (2021)

Matthew H. Edney

art history

Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures: The Nebenzahl Lectures, the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center, and the Study of Map History. Journal of Map & Geography Libraries (2021)

Matthew H. Edney

geographymap historycartography

Creating “Discovery”: The Myth of Columbus, 1777–1828. Terrae Incognitae (2020)

Matthew H. Edney

The History of Cartography, Volume 4. (2020)

Matthew H. EdneyMary Sponberg Pedley

historiographycartographyhistory