Maps and Mapmaking

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.03.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Content
  2. Instructional Approach
  3. Formative and Summative Assessments
  4. Lesson Plans
  5. Annotated List of Works Consulted
  6. Student Bibliography and Teacher Resources
  7. Appendix

Mapping Change: How Colonialism Changed a Man, His Community, and His Culture

Anne Marie Esposito

Published September 2007

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Student Bibliography and Teacher Resources

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.

Chamberlain, M.E. The Scramble for Africa: Seminar Studies. London and New

York: Longman, 1999.The collection provides additional background on European colonialism in Africa.

Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996.The chapters I read helped me understand how maps can distort or clarify information.

Whitaker, Robert. The Mapmaker's Wife. New York: Delta, 2005.This novel puts a human face on cartographers and cartography.

Woodard, David and J. B. Harley. History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 3. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1987. This text is an interesting and detailed examination of indigenous mapmaking. Answered my question: Did Africans make their own maps?

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