Cartography, Map-making & Projections

From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist worl...

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

Scotland has had a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. Conflict with England in the 16th century, Jacobite rebellions...

Manchester is one the worlds most iconic cities. Not only was it the first industrial city, it can claim to be the first post-industrial city. This...

From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Librarys extraordinary map collection together with rare ...

Maps that Made History is like a 1000-year-long journey around the world; every one of the carefully selected maps featured here has influenced the...

Following the continued success of the Scottish Maps Calendar, Birlinn is once again proud to collaborate with the National Library of Scotland. T...

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship abo...

Beautiful, thrilling and magical, Sunday Times bestselling-author Kiran Millwood Hargrave's critically-acclaimed first novel is a moder...

Every year, works of mapmakers from around the world are selected for the Esri Map Book to demonstrate how geographic information system (GIS) tech...

The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools, which can readily show change over time in space. But long before this s...

Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to peoples lives, pl...

One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the...

What is Europe, and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term Europe circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this com...

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the a...

The Clyde is arguably the most evocative of Scottish rivers. Its mention conjures up a variety of images of power, productivity and pleasure from i...

A compelling exploration of the ways that humans have mapped the world throughout history Map, Exploring the World brings together more than 250 fa...

Las Vegas has a long and rich history that extends far beyond the clichÉs of sin city, the Mafia, Elvis, or mindless urban sprawl. This book provid...

An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes prese...

The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gambolling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying th...

Unseen Extremes marks a new milestone in Earth observation and Alpine exploration, presenting thirteen of the world''s great mountains in a ma...

Out on the Western edge of Europe, a first glance at the map makes Ireland seem a small and isolated place. However, many peoples have by turns est...

John Randel Jr. (17871865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Ra...