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Mark Monmonier


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Education
  
Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
How to lie with maps, No Dig - No Fly - No Go: How Map, Spying with maps, From Squaw Tit to Whore, Bushmanders & bullwinkles

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Mark Stephen Monmonier (born 2 February 1943) is a Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He specializes in toponymy, geography, and geographic information systems. His popular written works show a combination of serious study and a sense of humor. Most of his work is published by University of Chicago Press. He has appeared on National Public Radio interview programs.

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For example, in his work, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: how maps name, claim, and inflame, Monmonier discusses topics such as:

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  • the propensity of conquerors to rename places after those friendly to the new regime.
  • the tension between place names assigned by the federal Board on Geographic Names and state and local government agencies.
  • the effects of political correctness and racism on place names.

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    In How to Lie with Maps, Monmonier gives us a different view of maps: different projections give vastly different impressions of the same "facts" or terrain.

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    Partial list of titles by the author

  • Air apparent: how meteorologists learned to map, predict, and dramatize weather, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1999.) ISBN 0-226-53422-7
  • Bushmanders & bullwinkles: how politicians manipulate electronic maps and census data to win elections, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2001). ISBN 0-226-53424-3
  • Cartographies of danger: mapping hazards in America, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.) ISBN 0-226-53419-7 (pbk.)
  • Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.) ISBN 0-226-53403-0
  • Computer-assisted cartography : principles and prospects, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c1982.) ISBN 0-13-165308-3
  • Drawing the line: tales of maps and cartocontroversy, 1st ed., (New York: H. Holt, 1995.) ISBN 0-8050-2581-2
  • From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: how maps name, claim, and inflame, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.) ISBN 0-226-53465-0
  • GIPSY: a geographic incremental plotting system by Mark Stephen Monmonier, (University Park, Pennsylvania: Dept. of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, 1969.)
  • How to lie with maps, 2nd ed., (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1996.) ISBN 0-226-53421-9 (paper)
  • Mark Monmonier and George A. Schnell, Map appreciation, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c1988.) ISBN 0-13-556052-7
  • Mapping it out: expository cartography for the humanities and social sciences, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.) ISBN 0-226-53417-0 (paper)
  • Maps, distortion, and meaning, (Washington: Association of American Geographers, c1977.) ISBN 0-89291-120-4
  • Maps with the news: the development of American journalistic cartography, (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.) ISBN 0-226-53413-8 (1999 pbk.)
  • No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control, (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.) ISBN 978-0-226-53467-1
  • Rhumb lines and map wars: a social history of the Mercator projection, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2004.) ISBN 0-226-53431-6
  • Technological transition in cartography, (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.) ISBN 0-299-10070-7
  • References

    Mark Monmonier Wikipedia


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