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Though the political and intellectual history of mapmaking in the eighteenth century is well established, the details of its commercial revolution have until no

Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartogr

For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps rev

This book focuses on how inexpensive maps, produced for the masses, accrued cultural value for everyday consumers in Renaissance Italy, who wanted to own and di