The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography
The father of critical cartography, and therefore the idea that a map should be understood as more than just a set of directions, was J. B. Harley...The New Nature of Maps... display[s] great erudition.(Nicholas LemannNew Yorker)Harley was an iconoclast, subverting traditional approaches to map-making by drawing together art history, literature, philosophy and visual culture. It's a view that can now be savored in his collected essays,The New Nature of Maps.(Nick SaundersNew Scientist)With supreme tact, sympathetic insight into Harley's personality and his own deft scholarship, Laxton has produced... a book worthy of Harley.(Catherine Delano-SmithNature)Inlcuding Andrew's introduction... we have a debate within the volume, not only postmodernism and its critique, but also other examples of Harley's anit-positivist and anti-Eurocentric approach alongside a potent understanding of the processes and problems of map making.(Jeremy BlackImago Mundi)The 'new nature' of maps reflects the sea change in the discipline of the history of cartography that has occurred, to a remarkable degree instigated by Brian Harley.(John CloudTechnology and Culture)