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<\/a>Helen Cann’s\u00a0How to Make Hand Drawn Maps:\u00a0A Creative Guide With Tips, Tricks, and Projects<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Chronicle<\/a>, 1 May paperback, 22 May ebook). “With wonderful examples and easy-to-follow instructions, this beautifully illustrated how-to book makes it simple and fun to create one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maps. Helpful templates, grids, and guidelines complement a detailed breakdown of essential cartographic elements and profiles of talented international map artists.” Amazon<\/a>, iBooks<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/the-cartographic-capital-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a>I trained as a historian of the French Third Republic, so Kory Olson’s The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris, 1889-1934<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Liverpool University Press<\/a>, 4 May), which “looks at how government presentations of Paris and environs change over the course of the Third Republic (1889-1934),” would have very much been up my alley twenty years ago. “The government initially seemed to privilege an exclusively positive view of the capital city and limited its presentation of it to land inside the walled fortifications. However, as the Republic progressed and Paris grew, technology altered how Parisians used and understood their urban space.”\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/early-modern-english-literature-and-the-poetics-of-cartographic-anxiety-190x300.jpg\")
<\/a>Chris Barrett’s\u00a0Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Oxford University Press<\/a>, 22 May) is about “the\u00a0many anxieties provoked by early modern maps and mapping in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.\u00a0A product of a military arms race, often deployed for security and surveillance purposes, and fundamentally distortive of their subjects, maps provoked suspicion, unease, and even hostility in early modern Britain. […]\u00a0\u00a0This volume explores three major poems of the period\u2014Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene<\/em> (1590, 1596), Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion <\/em>(1612, 1622), and John Milton’s Paradise Lost <\/em>(1667, 1674)\u2014in terms of their vexed and vexing relationships with cartographic materials.” Amazon<\/a>, iBooks<\/a><\/p>\n