Haim Goren - Mapping the Holy Land: the origins of cartography in Palestine

Haim Goren is Professor of Historical Geography, Tel-Hai College, Israel. He has a longstanding interest in the Holy Land, European activity in Ottoman Palestine and the Near East, and the history of the modern scientific study of these regions. His books include Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East (2011) and (with E. Dolev and Y. Sheffy) Palestine and World War I: New Perspectives (2014), both published by I.B.Tauris .

Jutta Faehndrich is a cultural historian and researcher with the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, where her research focus is on the history of cartography, European cultural history, and cultures of memory.

Bruno Schelhaas is Head of the Archive for Geography, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. His interests include the history of geography and cartography, historical geography and archival science.

Mapping the Holy Land is a scholarly yet accessible work that presents for the first time a detailed account of the activities that gave rise to the first scientific maps of Palestine, in the nineteenth century. The authors examine the work of three major figures Augustus Petermann, Charles Meredith van de Velde, and Edward Robinson and the influence that German geographical thought of the period had upon them. Drawing upon recently discovered archival material, the authors have produced a work that will enrich and engage all those with an interest in the development of maps and the Holy Land. Gideon Biger, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University

This book by three authors who are experts in their fields of archival science, the history of cartography, historical geography, and cultural history, sets an exemplary standard for detailed research into archives which have been hitherto unexploited for their content as far as the mapping of the Holy Land in the nineteenth century is concerned. Much is revealed, not only of the map compilation methods and commercial map publishing practices of those times, but we also learn of the more elusive human stories behind what were the ground-breaking cartographic products of their time for this area. There is a cornucopia of new material here, which will be relevant to a readership that goes beyond the geographical limits of the Holy Land. This presentation of substantial original research into the major nineteenth-century German map publishers and mapmakers, and their associates, provides an inestimable service to all students of map history whatever their geographical focus. This book must rank as a major contribution to the subject of the history of cartography in general, as well as an essential reference for the mapping of the Holy Land in the nineteenth century in particular. Dr Yolande Hodson, Formerly Honorary Secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund

TAURIS HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY SERIES

Series Editor: Robert Mayhew, University of Bristol

Editorial Board:

David Armitage, Harvard University.

Jeremy Black, Exeter University.

Laura Cameron, Queens University, Ontario.

Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Michael Heffernan, Nottingham University.

Nuala Johnson, Queens University, Belfast.

David Livingstone, Queens University, Belfast.

David Matless, Nottingham University.

Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary, University of London.

David Robinson, Syracuse University.

Charles Withers, Edinburgh University.

Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore.

Published and forthcoming in the Series:

1. Zambesi: David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa by Lawrence Dritsas
2. New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century by Simon Naylor and James R. Ryan (eds)
3. Scriptural Geography: Portraying the Holy Land by Edwin James Aiken
4. Bringing Geography to Book: Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge by Innes M. Keighren
5. Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England by Paul A. Elliot
6. Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East by Haim Goren
7. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed: Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens by Nuala C. Johnson
8. Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geographys Forgotten Past by William A. Koelsch
9. Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration by Huw Lewis-Jones
10. The First Mapping of America: The General Survey of British North America by Alex Johnson
11. Mapping the Holy Land: The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine by Haim Goren, Jutta Faehndrich and Bruno Schelhaas
12. The Idea of Central Europe: Geopolitics, Culture and Regional Identity by Otilia Dhand

Mapping the Holy Land

The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine

HAIM GOREN, JUTTA FAEHNDRICH AND BRUNO SCHELHAAS with PETRA WEIGEL

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Haim Goren

Jutta Faehndrich

Bruno Schelhaas