This volume gathers 19 papers first presented at the 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, which took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium on 2-5 December 2014. The overall conference theme was 'Cartography in Times of War and Peace', but preference was given to papers dealing with the military cartography of the First World War (1914-1918). The papers are classified by period and regional sub-theme, i.e. Military Cartography from the 18th to the 20th century; WW I Cartography in Belgium, Central Europe, etc.
- Image of Belgium in WWI Through Maps by Wouter Bracke
- The Postal Service of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (1917-1919): A Time-Step Analysis Using I-Iistorical Data Integration in a GIS Environment by Patricia Franco Frazäo, Sandra Domingues, Jorge Rocha and José Paulo Berger
- Position Mapping: Cartography, Intelligence, and the Third Battle of Gaza, 1917 by Joel Radunzel
- The Eye of the Army: German Aircraft and Aero Cartography in World War I by Jürgen Espenhorst
- A Good Map Is Half The Battle! The lV[ilitary Cartography of the Central Powers in World War I by Jürgen Espenhorst
- Military and Civilian Mapping (ca 1912-1930) of the Great War: A Selective Private Collection (Including Postcards) by Francis Herbert
- Mapping, Battlefield Guidebooks, and Remembering the Great War by James R. Akerman
- The Peace Treaty of Versailles: The Role of Maps in Reshaping the Balkans in the Aftermath of WWI by Mirela Slukan Altić
- The Role of Ethnographical Maps of Hungary and Romania at the Peace Talks After the Great War by János Jeney
- Ideological Changes in Ethnic Atlas Mapping of East Central Europe During the Twentieth Century by Marcus Greulich
- A New Kind of Map for a New Kind of World: 1919, the Peace, and the Rise of Geographical Cartography by Peter Nekola
- Military Mapping Against All Odds: Topographical Reconnaissance in the United States from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War by Imre Josef Demhardt
- The Peninsular War 1808-1814: French and Spanish Cartography of the Guadarrama Pass and El Escorial by Pilar Chias and Tomas Abad
- Partisan Cartographers During the Kansas-Missouri Border War, 1854-1861 by Karen Severud Cook
- Mapping for Empire: British Military Mapping in South Africa, 1806-1914 by Elri Liebenberg
- From Peninsular War to Coordinated Cadastre: William Light's Route Maps of Portugal and Spain, and His Founding of Adelaide, the 'Grand Experiment in the Art of Colonization' by Kelly Henderson
- Contours of Conflict: the Highs and Lows of Military Mapping at The National Archives of the United Kingdom by Rose Mitchell
- Whose Islands? The Cartographie Politics of the Falklands, 1763-1982 by Benjamin J. Sacks
Part I - Military Cartography during World War I
Part II - Maps and the Aftermath of World War I
Part III - Military Cartography on Various Fronts
Editors: Elri Liebenberg, Imre Josef Demhardt, Soetkin Vervust
ISBN: 978-3-319-25242-1 (Print) 978-3-319-25244-5 (Online)