Cartographic Essays
Notes on the Making of a Viking Age Map
This document accompanies the hand-painted map of the Viking Age (c. 793 to 1066) and describes the research, methodology, and cartographic decisions behind it. The map renders every place name...
Notes on the Making of a Viking Age Map
This document accompanies the hand-painted map of the Viking Age (c. 793 to 1066) and describes the research, methodology, and cartographic decisions behind it. The map renders every place name...
India, 1763: Eve of British Supremacy
I. The Year The map is called India. In 1763, there was no India. Instead, the subcontinent was home to a panoply of diverse polities ranging from a rump Mughal...
India, 1763: Eve of British Supremacy
I. The Year The map is called India. In 1763, there was no India. Instead, the subcontinent was home to a panoply of diverse polities ranging from a rump Mughal...
Expeditio Crucis: Mapping the World the First C...
I. A Date Written in Roman Numerals The title cartouche at the top of this map carries a date in Roman numerals: MCXXXV. 1135. Not 1099, the year Jerusalem fell...
Expeditio Crucis: Mapping the World the First C...
I. A Date Written in Roman Numerals The title cartouche at the top of this map carries a date in Roman numerals: MCXXXV. 1135. Not 1099, the year Jerusalem fell...
大清: The New Frontier, 1760
In 1760, the Qianlong Emperor composed a poem to celebrate the final defeat of the Dzungar Khanate, the last great nomadic empire of Inner Asia. The conquest had taken nearly...
大清: The New Frontier, 1760
In 1760, the Qianlong Emperor composed a poem to celebrate the final defeat of the Dzungar Khanate, the last great nomadic empire of Inner Asia. The conquest had taken nearly...
The Unwritten Republic: Mapping Mongolia Betwee...
I. A Mongol Ghost in a Soviet Machine To map the Mongolian People's Republic in the interwar years is to capture a nation in a state of profound, suspended animation...
The Unwritten Republic: Mapping Mongolia Betwee...
I. A Mongol Ghost in a Soviet Machine To map the Mongolian People's Republic in the interwar years is to capture a nation in a state of profound, suspended animation...
1642 — The Establishment of the Ganden Phodrang...
I. A Mongol Khan Hands a Monk the World There is a peculiar founding myth at the heart of Tibetan political modernity, one that tends to get smoothed over in...
1642 — The Establishment of the Ganden Phodrang...
I. A Mongol Khan Hands a Monk the World There is a peculiar founding myth at the heart of Tibetan political modernity, one that tends to get smoothed over in...