Putting "Cartography" into the history of cartography: Arthur H. Robinson, David Woodward, and the creation of a discipline

Cartographic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue 51, 2005, Pages 14-29

  Edney, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic cartography; Cartographic communication; Historiography; History of cartography (map content, internal, humanistic)

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 23044504457     PISSN: 10489053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14714/CP51.393     Document Type: Article

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