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Matthew H. Edney
Associate Professor of Geography

Email: edney@usm.maine.edu
Matthew's Personal Webpage

For the academic year of 2004-05, Matthew is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan

Biographical Sketch

     Matthew was born and raised in southwest London, England. He came to the USA in the fall of 1983 and has lived here ever since. He taught at SUNY-Binghamton from 1990 to 1995. Then, he came to Maine and became an Associate Professor of both Geography-Anthropology and American & New England Studies at USM. He is also the Faculty Scholar at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. He married his lovely wife in 2000 but hasn't had any kids yet.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Geography, May 1990, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cartography, December 1985, M.S.

University College London (University of London), Geography, August 1983, B.Sc. with Honors

Courses Taught at USM

GEO 207J: Maps: Knowledge, Technology, Society, Culture
GEO 307/HTY 394: The History of Anglo-American Cartography-replaced as of Fall 2003 with...
GEO 307/HTY 394: Spaces of Power: Mapping States and Empires
GEO 310: The History of Geographical Thought
ANE 633: The Mapping of New England    

     He has also given guest lectures on cartographic topics for courses in a number of departments (# given Fall 1995-Fall 2003): American & New England Studies (1), Anthropology (3), Art (1), Community and Planning Development (2), Undergraduate Core (2), English (8), French (3), Geography (17), Geography-Anthropology (3), History (26), Honors (1), Portuguese (1), Spanish (1), and Women's Studies (1).

 * For course syllabi and descriptions, check out his course page

Research Interests

     "I am generally interested in all things cartographic, but especially the history of cartography. My dissertation, and many of my publications, deal with the British mapping of India between 1750 and 1850. I am currently engaged in two principal research projects. First, I'm writing a book on the colonial mapping of New England, with the working title Cartographies of Colonial New England: Geographical Practice, Public Discourse, Regional Construction. Second, I'm a co-editor of Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume 4 of the History of Cartography, 6 volumes in 12 books. The founding editors are J.B.Harley and David Woodward (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987-)."

Selected Publications

Edney, Matthew H., and Susan Cimburek. "Telling the Traumatic Truth: William Hubbard's Narrative of King Philip's War and his Map of New-England (1677)." William & Mary Quarterly 3s 61, no. 2 (2004): 317-48.

Edney, Matthew H. "New England Mapped: The Creation of a Colonial Territory." In La cartografia europea tra primo Rinascimento e fine dell'Illuminismo, edited by Angelo Cattaneo, André Ferrand de Almeida, and Diogo Curto, 155-76. Florence: Olshki, 2003.

Edney, Matthew H. "Bringing India to Hand: Mapping an Empire, Denying Space." In The Global Eighteenth Century, edited by Felicity Nussbaum, 65-78 and 334-36. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Edney, Matthew H. "Reconsidering Enlightenment Geography and Map-Making: Reconnaissance, Mapping, Archive." In Geography and Enlightenment, edited by David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers, 165-98. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Edney, Matthew H. Mapping an Empire: The Geographic Construction of British India, 1765-1843. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997 (ISBN 0-226-18487-0 cloth; 0-226-18488-9 paper). (xxii + 458 pp.) Reprinted, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999 (ISBN 019-565172-3). Reprinted digitally by the University of Chicago Press, via netLibrary (www.netlibrary.com), 2000. (ISBN 0-226-18486-2).

Edney, Matthew H. "Theory and the History of Cartography." Imago Mundi 48 (1996): 185-91.

Edney, Matthew H. "Cartographic Culture and Nationalism in the Early United States: Benjamin Vaughan and the Choice for a Prime Meridian, 1811." Journal of Historical Geography 20, no. 4 (1994): 384-95.

Edney, Matthew H. "Mathematical Cosmography and the Social Ideology of British Cartography, 1780-18 20." Imago Mundi 46 (1994): 101-16.

Edney, Matthew H. "British Military Education, Mapmaking, and Military 'Map-Mindedness' in the Late r Enlightenment." The Cartographic Journal 31, no. 1 (1994): 14-20.

Edney, Matthew H. "Cartography without 'Progress': Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking." Cartographica 30, nos. 2 and 3 (1993): 54-68.

Edney, Matthew H. "The Patronage of Science and the Creation of Imperial Space: The British Mapping of India, 1799-1843." In "Introducing Cultural and Social Cartography," edited by Robert A. Rundstrom, 61-67. Cartographica 30, no. 1 (1993): Monograph 44.

Edney, Matthew H. "The Atlas of India, 1823-1947: The Natural History of a Topographic Map Series." Cartographica 28, no. 4 (1991): 59-91.

Edney, Matthew H. "Politics, Science, and Government Mapping Policy in the United States, 1800-1925." The American Cartographer 13 (1986): 295-306.  

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