Maps With the News

Maps With the News The Development of American Journalistic Cartography

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Publisher's Synopsis

Maps with the News is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.

"A most welcome and thorough investigation of a neglected aspect of both the history of cartography and modern cartographic practice."-Mapline

"A well-written, scholarly treatment of journalistic cartography. . . . It is well researched, thoroughly indexed and referenced . . . amply illustrated."-Judith A. Tyner, Imago Mundi

"There is little doubt that Maps with the News should be part of the training and on the desks of all those concerned with producing maps for mass consumption, and also on the bookshelves of all journalists, graphic artists, historians of cartography, and geographic educators."-W. G. V. Balchin, Geographical Journal

"A definitive work on journalistic cartography."-Virginia Chipperfield, Society of University Cartographers Bulletin


Book information

ISBN: 9780226534138
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Imprint: The University of Chicago Press
Pub date:
Edition: Paperback Edition
DEWEY: 070.4449912
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 331
Weight: 454g
Height: 22mm
Width: 16mm
Spine width: 2mm