{"id":1817096,"date":"2023-07-06T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1817096"},"modified":"2023-07-06T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:03:12","slug":"history-of-cartography-projects-fourth-volume-now-available-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/history-of-cartography-projects-fourth-volume-now-available-online\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Cartography Project’s Fourth Volume Now Available Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The History of Cartography Project<\/a>\u2019s fourth volume, Cartography in the European Enlightenment<\/em><\/strong>, is now available online for free download in PDF format<\/a>. This book, edited by Matthew Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley, came out in hardcover in the depths of the pandemic<\/a>; free online access a few years after publication follows the precedent of previous volumes in the series.<\/p>\n

This means that all five volumes that have been published to date can be downloaded for free (here<\/a>). The remaining volume\u2014volume five, Cartography in the Nineteenth Century<\/em><\/a>\u2014is in preparation. When that final book is published, it will close out a project that has taken more than four decades<\/a> to come to fruition.<\/p>\n

Previously: Forty Years of the History of Cartography Project<\/a>; The History of Cartography\u2019s Fourth Volume, Now (Almost) Out<\/a>; History of Cartography Project Updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The History of Cartography Project\u2019s fourth volume, Cartography in the European Enlightenment, is now available online for free download in PDF format. This book, edited by Matthew Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley, came out in… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30,312],"class_list":["post-1817096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-books","tag-history-of-cartography","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788721,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/the-history-of-cartographys-fourth-volume-now-almost-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817096,"position":0},"title":"The History of Cartography\u2019s Fourth Volume, Now (Almost) Out","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 April 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"I believe that today is (nominally) the publication date of the fourth volume in the History of Cartography Project: The History of Cartography, Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment. 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Edited by Mark Monmonier, it takes two physical volumes and nearly two thousand pages to cover mapmaking in the twentieth century\u2014and lists for an eye-popping $500 (U.S.), though it's a bit cheaper\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787740,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/09\/history-of-cartography-project-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817096,"position":4},"title":"History of Cartography Project Updates","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 September 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The first three volumes of the History of Cartography Project will be published in Chinese next year, \u201ccompleting a translation project that began in 2014,\u201d the Project announced on Facebook last week. 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