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  5. History through maps

Maps & Atlases

This subject guide looks at finding different maps and atlases throughout our collections. This is not an exhaustive list, but the guide does list various examples of resources within each section.
  • Introduction
  • Understanding maps
  • World atlases
  • Subject atlases
  • Finding maps
  • Topographic maps
  • Find maps online This link opens in a new window
  • Find outline maps
  • Fire insurance maps
  • Census maps
  • Geologic mapping
  • History through maps
  • Environmental mapping
  • Map humor
  • Evans Map Room
  • Web mapping This link opens in a new window
  • Google Earth & Maps
  • Digital Mapping
  • Map mashups
  • Cartography
  • Citing cartographic information
  • Scholarly communication
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Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artEncyclopedia of geographical features in world history: Europe and the Americas by James R. Penn
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 141 .P43 1997
    ISBN: 9780874367607
    Theorizing that human history is inextricably tied to the global landscape, this volume explores the historical and cultural significance of mountains, plateux, basins, land gateways, rivers, straits, and seas of Europe and the Americas.

Other library resource(s)

  • Resource logoHistorical GIS from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Weiwei Zhang, John R. Logan
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199874002
    Historical GIS (HGIS) is an interdisciplinary field that integrates the tools and methods of geographic information Science (GIS) into historical research. HGIS projects and studies emphasize the role of spatial context and relationships in understanding the emergence, development, and consequences of historical events. ...

Internet resource(s)

  • The Map as History
    • Link
    Sets of animated maps showing historical movement. Not all of the sets are freely available for viewing.
  • Library of Congress logo
    Maps That Changed Our World from the Library of Congress
    • Link
    From this first world map to the numerous digital maps created today, maps of the world have a tremendous influence on how people and societies view themselves and their place in the world. ...
  • Places in History (Library of Congress)
    • Link
    Not current events, but the observing of anniversaries throughout history. This site looks at History through maps.

Introduction

This page looks more at History depicted in maps rather than the history of Cartography. There are hundreds of historical atlases in our collection. However, not all are trying to show history. The aim of this page is to highlight those publications which emphasize history.

A subject heading you can use in the online catalog follows:

  • historical geography
  • historiography AND geography
    This is a keyword search.

Selected book titles

  • Cover artMaps and history: constructing images of the past by Jeremy Black
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry D 13 .B54 1997
    ISBN: 9780300069761
    Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past that is useful to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal what historians and educators of those periods thought important to include or omit. This book explores the role, development and nature of this reference tool and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.
  • Cover artHistories and historicities in Amazonia by Neil L. Whitehead, ed.
    • Book
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Baker-Berry F 2519.1 .A6 H57 2003
    ISBN: 9780803298170
    Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and themselves. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly aware of the role the past plays in the construction of culture and identity. Not only can the past be represented and codified overtly in various ways and media as a history, it also operates more fundamentally and pervasively in cultures as a mode of consciousness or way of thinking about the world, a historicity. ...
  • Cover artGeography and history: bridging the divide by Alan R. H. Baker
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 141 .B29 2003
    ISBN: 9780521246835
    Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines. Alan Baker focuses upon the work of North American, British and French historians and geographers but takes a global and interdisciplinary perspective upon the theory and practice of historical geography and geographical history.
  • Cover artModern historical geographies by Brian Graham; Catherine Nash, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 141 .M63 2000
    ISBN: 9780582357792
    Modern Historical Geographies is the first comprehensive undergraduate text to explore the historical geographies of modernity that have shaped and connected places and landscapes on a global scale. The approaches, themes and theories of historical geography have changed significantly over the last twenty years, and the book introduces students to the major developments in the subject. ...
  • Landscape: the richest historical record by Della Hooke, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry DA 600 .L36 2000
    ISBN: 9780953971107
    By conveying the new richness of debate and methodology, Landscape, the Richest Historical Record summarises the study of landscape history in 2000 as successfully as Hoskins’ overview of 1955’.
  • Cover artAtlas of European historiography: the making of a profession: 1800-2005 by Ilaria Porciani; Lutz Raphael, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Oversize D 13.5 .E85 A853 2010
    ISBN: 9780230500044
    This innovative Atlas maps for the first time the development of the historical profession and its institutions in each European country from 1800 to 2005. Systematically integrating texts and maps, this is a valuable and unique resource for students and scholars of development of European culture and the history of European nationalism.

A selected list of historical atlases

  • Cover artHistorical atlas of ancient Christianity by Angelo Di Berardino, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Oversize G 1046 .E42 I8 2013
    ISBN: 9781624280009
    Atlas of Ancient Christianity with maps, pictures, bibliography and indices.
  • Cover artA historical atlas of Tibet by Karl E. Ryavec
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry DS 786 .R93 2015
    ISBN: 9780226732442
    Cradled among the world's highest mountains--and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities--Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In recent decades Western fascination with Tibet has soared, from the rise of Tibetan studies in academia to the rock concerts aimed at supporting its independence to the simple fact that most of us--far from any base camp--know exactly what a sherpa is. And yet any sustained look into Tibet as a place, any attempt to find one's way around its high plateaus and through its deep history, will yield this surprising fact: we have barely mapped it. With this atlas, Karl E. Ryavec rights that wrong, sweeping aside the image of Tibet as Shangri-La and putting in its place a comprehensive vision of the region as it really is, a civilization in its own right. ...
  • Cover artHistorický atlas obyvatelstva českých zemí = Historical population atlas of the Czech lands by Martin Ourednícek; Jana Jíchová; Lucie Pospísilová
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Oversize G 1946 .E2 H57 2017
    ISBN: 9788024635774
    This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters present various themes relating directly to population from a historical perspective, such as demographic structures and processes, migration, economic structure, cultural structure, social status, crime, and elections. Drawing on census results from 1921 to 2011, including population registers from the postwar years, more than three hundred maps present time series of these basic population statistical indicators from the beginnings of the independent Czechoslovak state up to the present. Uniquely, the atlas shows the development of each indicator over time within a single map sheet through a series of maps with a cohesive legend.
  • Cover artThe Palgrave concise historical atlas of Central Asia by Rafis Abazov
    • Book
    Call Number: Evans Map Room G 2202.21 .S1 A2 2008
    ISBN: 9781403975423
    This atlas graphically illuminates the region's history tracing back to the 8th-7th century B.C. From the spread of Islam to the invasion of the Mongols, the area has been at the crossroads of some of the world's most important developments, all succinctly explained in this book.

GIS and History

  • Cover artHistorical GIS: technologies, methodologies and scholarship by Ian N. Gregory; Paul S. Ell
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G70.212 .G75 2007
    ISBN: 9780521671705
    Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell's study comprehensively defines this field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. ...
  • Cover artHistorical GIS research in Canada by Jennifer Bonnell; Marcel Fortin, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.217 .H57 H57 2014
    ISBN: 9781552387085
    Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. ...
  • Cover artHistory and GIS: epistemologies, considerations and reflections by Alexander von Lünen; Charles Travis, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.217 .H57 H58 2013
    ISBN: 9789400750081
    Geographical Information Systems (GIS) - either as "standard" GIS or custom made Historical GIS (HGIS) - have become quite popular in some historical sub-disciplines, such as Economic and Social History or Historical Geography. ...
  • Cover artToward spatial humanities: historical GIS and spatial history by Ian N. Gregory; Alistair Geddes, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780253011862
    The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. ...
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