Matthew H. Edney
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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 replaced Fall 2008 with GYA 399: Perspectives on Society, Culture, and Environment (cotaught with Nathan Hamilton)
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).
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-).
Recent Publications
Edney, Matthew H. “The Anglophone Toponyms Associated with John Smith’s Description and Map of New England.” Names: A Journal of Onomastics 57, no. 4 (2009): 189-207.
Edney, Matthew H. “The Irony of Imperial Mapping.” In The Imperial Map:
Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, ed. James R. Akerman, 11-45.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Edney, Matthew H. “John Mitchell’s Map of North America (1755): A Study
of the Use and Publication of Official Maps in Eighteenth-Century
Britain.” Imago Mundi 60, no. 1 (2008): 63-85.
Edney, Matthew H. “Mapping Parts of the World.” In Maps: Finding Our
Place in the World, ed. James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow, Jr.,
117-57. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Edney, Matthew H. “A Publishing History of John Mitchell’s 1755 Map of
North America.” Cartographic Perspectives, no. 58 (2007): 4-27 and 71-75.
Edney, Matthew H. The Origins and Development of J. B. Harley’s
Cartographic Theories. Cartographica Monograph, 54; Cartographica 40,
nos. 1 & 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Edney, Matthew H. “Putting ‘Cartography’ into the History of
Cartography: Arthur H. Robinson, David Woodward, and the Creation of a
Discipline.” Cartographic Perspectives, no. 51 (2005): 14-29. Reprinted
with corrections in A Reader in Critical Geographies, ed. Salvatore
Engel-Di Mauro and Harald Bauder (Praxis (e)Press
«www.praxis-epress.org», 2008), 711–28.
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.
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