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...