Here are the books that have been published or are scheduled to be published in 2017. Clicking on the title, if it’s a link, takes you to a blog post about the book.
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
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January
- Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine (revised edition)
by Tom Koch
Esri Press
Amazon - Early Dutch Maritime Cartography
by Günther Schilder
Brill
Amazon
February
- London: A Life in Maps (revised edition)
by Peter Whitfield
The British Library
Amazon
March
- The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City
edited by Andrea Carandini
Princeton University Press
Amazon - Mapping the Holy Land
by Haim Goren, Jutta Faehndrich and Bruno Schelhaas
I. B. Tauris
Amazon - Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps
by Stephen J. Hornsby
University of Chicago Press
Amazon / iBooks - Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History
by Mark Monmonier
Palgrave Macmillan
Amazon / iBooks - Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian
by Charles W. J. Withers
Harvard University Press
Amazon / iBooks
April
- The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence
by S. Max Edelson
Harvard University Press
Amazon - Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921
by Daniel Foliard
University of Chicago Press
Amazon / iBooks - History of Armenian Cartography: Up to the Year 1918
by Rouben Galichian
Bennett and Bloom
Amazon - Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line
edited by Tom Harper
The British Library (U.S. publication)
Amazon - Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont
by John L. Kessell
University of New Mexico Press
Amazon / iBooks - Kanaka Hawai‘i Cartography: Hula, Navigation, and Oratory
by Renee Pualani Louis with Moana Kahele
Oregon State University Press
Amazon - Children Map the World, Vol. 4: Commemorating the International Map Year
edited by José Jesús Reyes Nuñez et al.
Esri Press
Amazon
May
- Charting the Oceans
(2nd edition)
by Peter Whitfield
British Library (U.K. publication)
Amazon
June
- Decolonizing the Map: Cartography from Colony to Nation
edited by James R. Akerman
University of Chicago Press
Amazon / iBooks - Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
by Jess Bier
The MIT Press
Amazon - Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome
by Duane W. Roller
I. B. Tauris
Amazon - London: A Life in Maps (revised edition)
by Peter Whitfield
The British Library (U.S. publication)
Amazon
July
- Companions in Geography: East-West Collaboration in the Mapping of Qing China (c. 1685-1735)
by Mario Cams
Brill
Amazon - Cartography: An Introduction (2nd edition)
by Giles Darkes and Mary Spence
British Cartographic Society
Amazon - Canada Before Confederation: Maps at the Exhibition
by Chet Van Duzer and Lauren Beck
Vernon Press
Amazon
August
- Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge
edited by Mirela Altic, Imre Josef Demhardt and Soetkin Vervust
Springer
Amazon - Beyond the Map
by Alastair Bonnett
Aurum Press
Amazon / iBooks - Women and Cartography in the Progressive Era
by Christina E. Dando
Routledge
Amazon / iBooks - Maps of Delhi
by Pilan Maria Guerrieri
Niyogi Books
Amazon
September
- The Art of Cartographics: Designing the Modern Map
Goodman Books
Amazon - Where the Animals Go
by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti
W. W. Norton (U.S. edition)
Amazon - Atlas of the Irish Revolution
edited by John Crowley, Mike Murphy and Donal Ó Drisceoil
Cork University Press, NYU Press
Amazon - The First Railroads: Atlas of Early Railroads
by Derek Hayes
Firefly Books
Amazon - Atlas of Beer
by Nancy Hoalst-Pullen and Mark W. Patterson
National Geographic
Amazon
October
- Atlas of Nebraska
by J. Clark Archer et al.
Bison Books
Amazon - Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries, 1840-1975
by Bjørn Berge
Thames and Hudson
Amazon - New Views: The World Mapped Like Never Before
by Alastair Bonnett
Aurum Press
Amazon - Mapping Naval Warfare: A Visual History of Conflict at Sea
by Jeremy Black
Osprey
Amazon - The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
by John Davies and Alex Kent
University of Chicago Press
Amazon - Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies
by Andrew DeGraff and A. D. Jameson
Quirk
Amazon / iBooks - Bermuda Maps
by Jonathan Land Evans
National Museum of Bermuda Press - The First Mapping of America: The General Survey of British North America
by Alex Johnson
I. B. Tauris
Amazon - Londonist Mapped: Hand-drawn Maps for the Curious Explorer
AA Publishing
Amazon UK - Remapping Modern Germany after National Socialism, 1945-1961
by Matthew D. Mingus
Syracuse University Press
Amazon - Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert’s Land in the Age of Enlightenment
by Barbara Mitchell
University of Regina Press
Amazon - Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globe
by Sumathi Ramaswamy
University of Chicago Press
Amazon - A History of Canada in Ten Maps
by Adam Shoalts
Allen Lane
Amazon / iBooks - Tribal GIS: Supporting Native American Decision Making (2nd edition)
by Anne Taylor et al. (eds.)
Esri Press
Amazon - The Times Mini Atlas of the World (7th edition)
HarperCollins
Amazon - The Times Reference Atlas of the World (8th edition)
HarperCollins
Amazon - Explorer’s Atlas: For the Incurably Curious
by Piotr Wilkowiecki and Michał Gaszyński
HarperCollins
Amazon
November
- The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860
by Martin Brückner
University of North Carolina Press
Amazon - Literature and Cartography: Theories, Histories, Genres
edited by Anders Engberg-Petersen
The MIT Press
Amazon - The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography
by Alexander J. Kent and Peter Vujakovic
Routledge
Amazon - Carpathian Rus’: A Historical Atlas
by Paul Robert Magocsi
University of Toronto Press
Amazon - Oxford Atlas of the World (24th edition)
Oxford University Press
Amazon - History of Britain in Maps
by Philip Parker
HarperCollins
Amazon - Sad Topographies
by Damien Rudd
Simon & Schuster
Amazon / iBooks - The Un-Discovered Islands
by Malachy Tallack
Picador (U.S. edition)
Amazon / iBooks - Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia
by Jasper van Putten
Brill
Amazon - Charting the Oceans
(2nd edition)
by Peter Whitfield
British Library (U.S. publication)
Amazon - New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map
by Matthew W. Wilson
University of Minnesota Press
Amazon
December
Coming in 2018:
January 2018
- Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688–1815 by Jeremy Black (Indiana University Press)
- Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above by Caren Kaplan (Duke University Press)
- A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake by Christian J. Koot (NYU Press)
- Mapping the Clyde by John Moore (Birlinn)
March 2018
- Maps and Texts: Evaluating the Irish Historic Towns Atlas edited by H. B. Clarke and Sarah Gearty (Royal Irish Academy)
- Cartography by Kenneth Field (Esri)
April 2018
- Mapping the Middle East by Zayde Antrim (Reaktion)
- Mapping Shakespeare: An Exploration of Shakespeare’s Worlds Through Maps by Jeremy Black (Conway)
- The Art of Map Illustration: A Step-by-Step Artistic Exploration of Contemporary Cartography and Map Making by James Gulliver Hancock et al. (Walter Foster)
- How to Lie With Maps, 3rd edition by Mark Monmonier (University of Chicago Press)
- Carving Up the Globe: An Atlas of Diplomacy edited by Malise Ruthven (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
- Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe by Steven Seegel (University of Chicago Press)
- Early Mapping of the Pacific: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth’s Greatest Ocean by Thomas Suarez (Periplus)
May 2018
- The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris, 1889-1934 by Kory Olson (Liverpool University Press)
June 2018
- Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World, 2nd edition by Jerry Brotton (Reaktion)
- Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo by Yossef Rapoport and Emily Savage-Smith (University of Chicago Press)
- To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire by Jason W. Smith (University of North Carolina Press)