Selected papers from the 16th international conference on the history of cartography: Theoretical aspects of the history of cartography: Why theory in the history of cartography?

Abstract

In focusing on the ‘history’ of the history of cartography, attention is drawn to the need to distinguish between two sources of theory: critical theory, for the way maps are interpreted as historical documents; and a variety of bodies of theory (such as those of the social sciences, humanities, and sciences) for the information derived from maps. The argument touches on the relationship of history, by definition a text‐based (in broad terms) subject, with critical theory, and their common preoccupation with problems of authorship, the importance of context and genre at the empirical level, and the different levels of relevance of theory to the history of cartography.

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