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Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea

Alexander James Kent,Soetkin Vervust,Imre Josef Demhardt,Nick Millea
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Author : Alexander James Kent,Soetkin Vervust,Imre Josef Demhardt,Nick Millea
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030234478

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This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The overall conference theme was ‘Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea’. The book presents a breadth of original research undertaken by internationally recognized authors in the field of historical cartography and offers a significant contribution to the development of this growing field and to many interdisciplinary aspects of geography, history and the geographic information sciences. It is intended for researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.

Mapping an Empire

Matthew H. Edney
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Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226184869

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In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly

Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires

Luis Lobo-Guerrero,Laura Lo Presti,Filipe dos Reis
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Author : Luis Lobo-Guerrero,Laura Lo Presti,Filipe dos Reis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538146415

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Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires by Luis Lobo-Guerrero,Laura Lo Presti,Filipe dos Reis Pdf

This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity. Rehearsing mapping’s past and its multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet attuned. By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning literature on the history of international relations and empire. The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for IR’s state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further erode the myth of Westphalia.

Surveyors of Empire

Stephen J. Hornsby
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Author : Stephen J. Hornsby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773587342

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Using research from both sides of the Atlantic, Stephen Hornsby examines the development of British military cartography in North America during and after the Seven Years War, as well as advancements in military and scientific equipment used in surveying. At the same time, he follows the land speculation of two leading surveyors, Samuel Holland and J.F.W. Des Barres, and the publication history of The Atlantic Neptune. Richly illustrated with images from The Atlantic Neptune and earlier maps, Surveyors of Empire is an insightful account of the relationship between science and imperialism, and the British shaping of the Atlantic world.

The Imperial Map

James R. Akerman
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Author : James R. Akerman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226010762

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Maps from virtually every culture and period convey our tendency to see our communities as the centre of the world (if not the universe) and, by implication, as superior to anything beyond our boundaries. This study examines how cartography has been used to prop up a variety of imperialist enterprises.

The New Map of Empire

S. Max Edelson
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Author : S. Max Edelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674978997

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In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions before the Revolution.

Mapping European Empire

Russell Foster
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Author : Russell Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317593072

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Empire and maps are mutually reliant phenomena and traceable to the dawn of civilisation. Furthermore, maps retain a supremely authoritative status as unquestioned reflections of reality. In today’s image-saturated world, their influence is more powerful now than at any other time in history. This book argues that in the 21st century we are seeing an imperial renaissance in the European Union (EU), a political organisation which defies categorisation, but whose power and influence grows by the year. It examines the past, present, and future of the EU to demonstrate that empire is not a category of state but rather a collective imagination which reshapes history and appropriates an artificial past to validate the policies of the present and the ambitions of the future. In doing so, this book illuminates the imperial discourse that permeates the mass maps of the modern EU. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of political science, EU Studies, Human Geography, European political history, cartography and visual methodologies and international relations.

Mapping Europe's Borderlands

Steven Seegel
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Author : Steven Seegel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226744254

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The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and important new book. Mapping Europe’s Borderlands takes the familiar problems of state and nation building in eastern Europe and presents them through an entirely new prism, that of cartography and cartographers. Drawing from sources in eleven languages, including military, historical-pedagogical, and ethnographic maps, as well as geographic texts and related cartographic literature, Seegel explores the role of maps and mapmakers in the East Central European borderlands from the Enlightenment to the Treaty of Versailles. For example, Seegel explains how Russia used cartography in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and, later, formed its geography society as a cover for gathering intelligence. He also explains the importance of maps to the formation of identities and institutions in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania, as well as in Russia. Seegel concludes with a consideration of the impact of cartographers’ regional and socioeconomic backgrounds, educations, families, career options, and available language choices.

Empires and the Reach of the Global

Tony Ballantyne,Antoinette Burton
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Author : Tony Ballantyne,Antoinette Burton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674281295

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Empire was not fabricated in European capitals and implemented "out there." Imperial systems affected the metropole as well as the farthest outpost. Empires and the Reach of the Global shows how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today's world.

Mapping an Empire of American Sport

Mark Dyreson,J.A. Mangan,Roberta J. Park
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Author : Mark Dyreson,J.A. Mangan,Roberta J. Park
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317980360

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Mapping an Empire of American Sport by Mark Dyreson,J.A. Mangan,Roberta J. Park Pdf

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through American pastimes such as baseball, basketball and the American variant of football in particular, the U.S. has sought to Americanize the globe’s masses in a long series of both domestic and foreign campaigns. Sport played roles in American programs of cultural, economic, and political expansion. Sport also contributed to American efforts to assimilate immigrant populations. Even in American games such as baseball and football, sport has also served as an agent of resistance to American imperial designs among the nations of the Western hemisphere and the Pacific Rim. As the twenty-first century begins, sport continues to shape American visions of a global empire as well as framing resistance to American imperial designs. Mapping an Empire of American Sport chronicles the dynamic tensions in the role of sport as an element in both the expansion of and the resistance to American power, and in sport’s dual role as an instrument for assimilation and adaptation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Mapping Empires

ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries. International Symposium
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Author : ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries. International Symposium
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 3030234487

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Mapping Empires by ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in the 19th and 20th centuries. International Symposium Pdf

This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The overall conference theme was 'Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea'. The book presents a breadth of original research undertaken by internationally recognized authors in the field of historical cartography and offers a significant contribution to the development of this growing field and to many interdisciplinary aspects of geography, history and the geographic information sciences. It is intended for researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists.

Mapping Men and Empire

Richard Phillips
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Author : Richard Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135636562

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First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cartography

Matthew H. Edney
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Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226605715

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“In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of ‘cartography’ to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps.” —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 Maps Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same. “[An] intellectually bracing and marvellously provocative account of how the mythical ideal of cartography developed over time and, in the process, distorted our understanding of maps.” —Times Higher Education “Cartography: The Ideal and Its History offers both a sharp critique of current practice and a call to reorient the field of map studies. A landmark contribution.” —Kären Wigen, coeditor of Time in Maps

Empires in World History

Niv Horesh
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Author : Niv Horesh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811615405

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This study focuses on Empires, from an economic historical perspective. In doing so, it relates current debates in international relations (IR) and politics to the vexed legacy of empires in the past. The book includes analyses of the comparative scholarly literature on Empire in Antiquity, and Empire in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, asking the question if the United Sates is an Empire, and if China an emerging Empire. It contributes to the field given its interdisciplinarity, bringing together both historical and IR insights into world systems in times past. In addition it draws out four key points of separateness between pre-modern and modern empires, and emphases specific economic data. Further to that, the book advances the notion of the emergence of “empires from within” in the 21st century, that is nation-states becoming more multi-ethnic while often stepping back from globalization. And finally it offers future scenarios for the evolution of empires in a Schumpeterian post-industrial world.

Imagining Macedonia in the Age of Empire

Denis Š. Ljuljanovi?
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Author : Denis Š. Ljuljanovi?
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643964465

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Imagining Macedonia in the Age of Empire by Denis Š. Ljuljanovi? Pdf

During the tumultuous age of empire, Ottoman Macedonia became a blank canvas onto which Great Powers and neighboring states projected their aspirations, grievances, ambitions, and state-building endeavors. This manuscript aims to elucidate these constructs and imaginaries, employing a theoretical framework encompassing entangled history, post-colonial theory, and subaltern studies. It will examine both (inter)state and local examples to shed light on the multifaceted nature of this complex issue.