The intention of Classics in Cartography is to provide an intellectually-driven reinterpretation of a selection of some of the most influential articles from the last thirty years of academic cartography research. The ten chosen ‘classic’ articles were written by a range of the leading academic cartographers, geographers and allied scholars. Theywere all published in the international peer-revi...

Naples during the early modern period, one encounters a number of “absences”: there are maps that circulated for only a very short time or among a very restricted group of people, maps that have been either forgotten or lost without a trace, and maps that were never completed or never printed. And whether this absence is an accidental or inherent characteristic of the works concerned, it is sym...

When asked to reflect on Brian Harley’s ‘‘Deconstructing the Map’’ (Harley 1989) for this special issue of Cartographica, I sat down on the sofa in my office and tried to recall my initial reading of and reaction to the article. What came to mind was less about articles, critiques, theories, or intellectual arguments and more about Harley the person, David Woodward and assorted graduate student...