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How about creating an RSS feed for the new site? Perhaps not the same as a listserv but it will alert people to new updates on the site with the titles of entries and can be sent to a new folder in Outlook to avoid email clutter. Mike Casino New Hampshire -----Original Message----- From: maphist-boun...@geo.uu.nl [mailto:maphist-boun...@geo.uu.nl] On Behalf Of maphist-requ...@geo.uu.nl Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 6:00 AM To: maphist@geo.uu.nl Subject: Maphist Digest, Vol 77, Issue 12 Send Maphist mailing list submissions to maphist@geo.uu.nl To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to maphist-requ...@geo.uu.nl You can reach the person managing the list at maphist-ow...@geo.uu.nl When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Maphist digest..." This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum Today's Topics: 1. New MapHist Forum comment & question (Jay L) 2. recent book (Rand Burnette) 3. Re: recent book (Joel Kovarsky) 4. The best American wall map: David Imus? ?The Essential Geography of the United States of America? - Slate MagazinofAmerica? - Slate Magazine (Rick Laprairie) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:53:45 -0500 From: Jay L <carolinararem...@gmail.com> Subject: [MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment & question To: MapHist <maph...@geog.uu.nl> Message-ID: <6190881e-6479-46dd-befd-4fd6603c4...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Peter, The new MapHist Forum ( http://www.maphist.nl/forum ) is very well designed, and I believe it will be highly successful. The option to receive notifications of new posts via email is not only great, but absolutely essential. I would assume those who were in favor of the forum design over the listserv are not using the email notifications since one of their stated goals was to de-clutter their inboxes. However, the forum (as opposed to the listserv) is still a time sink for some of us. Is it possible for the email notifications to include the actual new post and a link to it, rather than just a link? It would save a lot of time for those of us who don't mind the emails and, from my perspective, would make the new forum irresistible, combining the best of the old and new. Regards, Jay L. -- Jay Lester Chapel Hill, NC ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:12:22 -0600 From: Rand Burnette <burne...@mchsi.com> Subject: [MapHist] recent book To: Discussion group for map history <maphist@geo.uu.nl> Message-ID: <e522e905-866b-44c4-af28-6b39a526c...@mchsi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Last fall I received a copy of Martin Bruckner, ed. Early American Cartographies. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2011. The publication of the book was duly noted on the Map History list. At about the same time, however, another book was also published by the same press for the same sponsor, which I did not see mentioned. Paul W. Mapp's The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire, 1713-1763, 455 pp.39 maps, and 4 plates should be of interest to historians of cartography, especially those concerned with North America. Part of the dust jacket reads: "A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus of the Atlantic world, Paul Mapp demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions to early American history." Mapp deals with the Spanish, French, British and Amerindians ideas about the west, especially the transMississippi west. The volume is well documented (footnotes at the bottom of the page, as with the Bruckner volume) with research in the various archives. Rand Burnette, Professor Emeritus of History, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL 62650 burne...@mchsi.com January 8, 2012 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/pipermail/maphist/attachments/20120108/1a882018/att achment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:47:36 -0500 From: Joel Kovarsky <j...@theprimemeridian.com> Subject: Re: [MapHist] recent book To: Discussion group for map history <maphist@geo.uu.nl> Message-ID: <4f0a0ef8.2020...@theprimemeridian.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" These are excellent works, and I think there is one other that should be added to these recent releases: _ The Nation's Nature: How Continental Presumptions Gave Rise to the United States of America_ James D. Drake Cloth 7 416 pp. 7 6.125 x 9.25 7 ISBN 9780813931227 7 $39.50 7 Jul 2011 Ebook 7 416 pp. 7 ISBN 9780813931395 7 $39.50 7 Jul 2011 http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4202.xml?q=drake Joel Kovarsky On 1/8/2012 4:12 PM, Rand Burnette wrote: > This is a MapHist list message. > This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum > o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > > > > > Last fall I received a copy of Martin Bruckner, ed. /Early American > Cartographies/. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press for > the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2011. > The publication of the book was duly noted on the Map History list. > At about the same time, however, another book was also published by > the same press for the same sponsor, which I did not see mentioned. > Paul W. Mapp's /The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire, > 1713-1763,/ 455 pp.39 maps, and 4 plates should be of interest to > historians of cartography, especially those concerned with North > America. Part of the dust jacket reads: "A truly continental history > in both its geographic and political scope, /The Elusive West and the > Conquest for Empire/ investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy > involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the > American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from > scholars' traditional focus of the Atlantic world, Paul Mapp > demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions > to early American history." Mapp deals with the Spanish, French, > British and Amerindians ideas about the west, especially the > transMississippi west. The volume is well documented (footnotes at > the bottom of the page, as with the Bruckner volume) with research in > the various archives. > > Rand Burnette, Professor Emeritus of History, MacMurray College, > Jacksonville, IL 62650 > burne...@mchsi.com <mailto:burne...@mchsi.com> > January 8, 2012 > > > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. 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Interesting map, interesting perspecives on modern map reading and geographic knowledge. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall _map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_states_of_america_.htm l Rick Laprairie Toronto ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist End of Maphist Digest, Vol 77, Issue 12 *************************************** _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. 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