Matthew H. Edney

Matthew H. Edney is a British geographer who is both the Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, at the University of Southern Maine; and the Project Director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Edney maintains a blog, Mapping as Process, where he discusses the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption.

Early life and education Matthew H. Edney was born in 1962 in London SW19. He completed the B.Sc. (hons.) in Geography at University College London (1983) and then the M.S. in Cartography (1985) and Ph.D. in Geography (1990) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed books and monographs

Edney, M. H. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Edney, M. H. Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Edney, M. 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, M. & Pedley, M.S. (eds.) The History of Cartography, Volume 4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Peer-reviewed essays

Edney, M. H. Map History: Discourse and Process. In The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography, edited by Alexander J. Kent and Peter Vujakovic, 68–79. London: Routledge, 2017.