The ‘Descripción de México’ by physician Diego de Cisneros is the oldest known map printed in the Americas. Engraved in New Spain on copper by Flemish artist Samuel Stradanus, it was included in Ci...

Volume 77, Issue 2 of Imago Mundi

Since long before the 2023 wildfires, Lahaina has been a battleground for Kānaka Maoli who are winning their ancestral lands back in settler courts of law. Kanaka Maoli leader Keʻeaumoku Kapu has w...

This article illustrates the intertwined nature of European and African mapping practices in the construction of Captain Louis-Gustave Binger’s 1890 Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée par le Pa...

This article broadly surveys core concepts and examples of Indigenous mapping systems that are distinct from, and often challenge, Western notions of cartography. While both traditions share some c...

Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2025)

Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi