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Jacques Redway on the History of European Discovery

Posted by By Andy January 7, 2022Posted inGeography Textbooks, Infographics, Miscellaneous
Another piece in the puzzle of Jacques Redway and his desire for better maps. This series of maps is obviously problematic in terms of its Eurocentric notion of “discovering” and…
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More on Jacques Redway

Posted by By Andy March 1, 2021Posted inGeography Textbooks, USA
Redway is still a bit of a puzzle to me. As I mentioned in my earlier post on him, he was the author of Butler's Complete Geography. The Library of…
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“American Maps are Bad” -Jacques Redway

Posted by By Andy February 16, 2021Posted inGeography Textbooks, USA
I came across the name Jacques Redway while researching James Monteith, and noticing a lot of similarities in the style and content of their geography textbooks. Monteith was older, more…
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