Bill Rankin awarded Edelstein Prize for best book in the history of technology

This weekend the Society for the History of Technology awarded Bill Rankin the 2017 Sidney Edelstein Prize for the best book in the history of technology. The award was for his book After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century, published last year by the University of Chicago Press.

The Edelstein Prize was established in 1968 and is awarded annually to a book published during the previous three years. Read more about the prize at Society for the History of Technology.