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"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:10:04 -0500
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Subject:        Re: [MapHist] 'The History of Cartography' available online
(vols. I and II)
Date:   Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:45:14 -0400
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
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Forwarded from MapHist.

Joel Kovarsky

On 7/18/2011 1:00 PM, Tony Campbell wrote:
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> I do not think the list has been told - as we learnt at ICHC 2011 in
> Moscow - that the first two volumes of the defining work, /The History
> of Cartography,/ are now freely available online.
> That means four physical volumes, with the hope that the two-part
> Volume 3 may follow in the future.
> The University of Chicago Press has broken the text down into the
> separate chapters, presented as a series of 104 pdfs.
> http://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html
> Not only can you search and download individual chapters, you can also
> search across the four volumes.
> This is a major initiative, for which the publishers must be thanked
> and congratulated.
> Tony Campbell
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